Dr. Robert Waugh

English Department

College Hall 211F
Office Hours: M/W 12-1:30, T/H 11-12

Office Phone: 257-2754
Office Fax: 257-3367

e-mail: waughr@matrix.newpaltz.edu

Nec genus est unum, ratio nec prodita simplex,
pluribus inque modis verum natura locavit
diduxitque vias voluitque per omnia quaeri.

(Manilius, Astronomica)

"Monsieur," he answered, "I have a variety of chronometers regulated according to the meridians of Paris, Greenwich, and Washington. But in your honor I will use that of Paris."

(Jules Verne, Twenty-thousand Leagues under the Sea)

When I saw the bronze torso of Hercules thrown down
in the cross-roads, the son of Zeus, the god
we once adored, I cried out, "Why, Lord God, my dear
God do you lie in the gutter, broken up, spat on, defiled?"
So at night he stood by my bed-side, leaned over me and smiled,
"Even though I'm a god I've learned to serve the time."

(Palladas of Alexandria, "An Imitation")

Wordis wel set togidere is a coomb of hony
(Wyclif, Proverb 16.24)

Web Sites of Interest
www.perseus.tuft.edu
humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-mod.html#british
www.wilsoninet.com/hydepark/virgil/
www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/index.html
www.utu.fi/~hansalmi/wagner.spml
www.bomis.com/cgi-bin/ring?page=7&ring=goethe
www.grand-teton.com/cgi-grand-teton/jjoyce/grep.cgi
www.hplovecraft.com

Research Interests

Publications

"The Drum of A Voyage to Arcturus. Extrapolation Summer 1985.
"The Hands of H.P. Lovecraft." Lovecraft Studies Fall 1988.
"The Lament of the Midwives: Arthur C. Clarke and the Tradition." Extrapolation Spring 1990.
"Landscapes, Selves, and Others in Lovecraft" in An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H.P. Lovecraft. Ed. David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi. Rutherford: Fairleigh-Dickinson UP, 1991:220-43.
"Spirals and Metaphors: The Shape of Divinity in Olaf Stapledon's Myth." Extrapolation Fall 1997.
"The Subway and the Shoggoth." Lovecraft Studies Summer 1998.