Richard Hillyer
Richard Hillyer | Professor Specializes in Renaissance literature and poetry. HUMB 278 | 460-6539 | rhillyer@southalabama.edu |
Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus
Darwin. Anthem Impact, 2020. |
Auden's Syllabic Verse. Lexington Books, 2019. |
Divided between Carelessness and Care: A Cultural History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. |
Sir Philip Sidney, Cultural Icon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. |
Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries: Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
Articles
- "'He Best Can Turne, Enforce, and Soften Things': Of the Danger and 'To the Queen' as Waller’s Earliest Poems." Restoration 47 (2), 2023: 27-60.
- "Let Me Weigh the Counts: Auden's Horatian Syllabics." Versification 5, 2010: 11-26.
- "Hobbes and Sex." Hobbes Studies 22, 2009: 29-48.
- "Hobbes's Explicated Fables and the Legacy of the Ancients." Philosophy and Literature 28 (2), 2004: 269-83.
- "Keith Thomas's 'Definitive Refutation' of C.B. Macpherson: Revisiting 'The Social Origins of Hobbes's Political Thought.'" Hobbes Studies 15, 2002: 32-44.
- "Edmund Waller's Sacred Poems." SEL 39 (1), 1999: 155-69.
- "Some Current Publications." Restoration 15 (2), 1991: 111-37.
- "In More than Name Only: Jonson's 'To Sir Horace Vere.'" The Modern Language Review 85 (1), 1990: 1-11.
- "Better Read than Dead: Waller's 'Of English Verse.'" Restoration 14 (1), 1990: 33-43.
Book Chapters
- "'Such Huge Extremes': Waller, Denham, and the Emergence of Neoclassical Distichs." Philip Major, ed., Edmund Waller (1606-1687): New Perspectives (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2022): 171-95.
Reviews
- Michel Edson and Cedric D. Reverand, eds., Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): A Seventeenth-Century English Poet Recovered, Clemson University Press, in Association with Liverpool University Press, 2023, xv, 272pp. Restoration 48 (1), 2024: 113-15.
Notes
- "Authorization and the Royal Society." ANQ 23 (1), 2010: 31-33.