Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry

Donald Wesling studied English Literature at Harvard and Cambridge Universities; his Ph.D. is from Harvard. He has taught at the University of Essex in England, and for most of his career at the University of California, San Diego, where he was for three years Chair of the Department of Literature. In 1997-98, he was Otto Salgo Professor of American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and he has also held visiting positions at Leningrad State University and the University of Durham. His interests include English Romanticism, modern English and American poetry, the history of criticism, social theories of poetry and poetic form, Scottish and Russian poetry, and the theories of communication of Mikhail Bakhtin.Donald Wesling is the author of 'Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry', published 2003 under ISBN 9780838755402 and ISBN 0838755402.