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Dickson, Donald

Professor

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Professor, English, College of Liberal Arts

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d-dickson@tamu.edu

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0000-0001-7980-0307

overview

My interests include textual editing, the devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, Renaissance Hermeticism, utopianism, and the history of science in the seventeenth century.

education and training

Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States) 1981
M.A. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States) 1976
B.A. in English, University of Connecticut - (Storrs, Connecticut, United States) 1973

selected publications

Academic Articles24

Dickson, D. R (2020). Henry Vaughan, Scholarly Editor. Scintilla. 23, 204-244.
Dickson, D. R (2020). Henry Vaughan's Knowledge (and Use) of Greek. Studies in Philology. 117(1), 201-224.
Dickson, D. R (2014). Vaughan’s “The Water-fall” and Protestant Meditation. Explorations in Renaissance Culture. 40(1-2), 41-52.
Dickson, D. R (2013). The Text of Donne’s Good Friday Meditation. John Donne Journal: studies in the age of Donne. 32, 87-106.
Dickson, D. R (2007). Henry Vaughan as Country Doctor. Explorations in Renaissance Culture. 33(2), 171-195.

Books8

Donne, J (2015). The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne The Satyres.
Donne, J., & Dickson, D. R (2007). John Donne's Poetry Authoritive Texts, Criticism. W. W. Norton.
Dickson, D. R., & Nelson, H. F (2004). Of Paradise and Light Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum. University of Delaware Press.
Vaughan, T., Vaughan, R., Dickson, D. R., & Library, B (2001). Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan's Aqua Vitae, Non Vitis (British Library MS, Sloane 1741). Mrts.
Dickson, D. R (1998). The Tessera of Antilia_ Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century. BRILL.

Chapters3

Dickson, D. R (2012). Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies. The Oxford Handbook of John Donne.
Dickson, D. R (2004). The Mount of Olives: Vaughan’s Book of Private Prayer. Dickson, D. R., & Nelson, H. F. (Eds.), Of Paradise and Light Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum. 202-217. University of Delaware Press.
Dickson, D. R (2004). Utopia. Dewald, J. (Eds.), Europe 1450 to 1789 encyclopedia of the early modern world. 105-106. Scribner.