Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was an American poet, translator, and the Sterling Professor of English emerita at Yale University.

Life

Borroff was born in New York City in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff, and sister of composer Edith Borroff. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1956. In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale. In 1965, she was the first woman appointed to be an English professor. She retired in 1994.

An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her (Marie Borroff Professor of English), presently held by Ardis Butterfield.

Works

  • . Yale University Press. 1963.
  • Marie Borroff, ed. (1963). . Prentice-Hall.
  • . Translated by Marie Borroff. Norton. 1967.
  • Pearl: a new verse translation. Translated by Marie Borroff. W. W. Norton. 1977. ISBN 978-0-393-09144-1.
  • . University of Chicago Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-226-06651-6.
  • Marie Borroff; Mary Teresa Tavormina; Robert F. Yeager, eds. (1995). The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85991-480-2.
  • . Translated by Marie Borroff. W.W. Norton. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-97658-8.
  • . Yale University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-300-09570-8.
  • . Yale University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09612-5.
  • Albert Gelpi, ed. (1993). . Denise Levertov: selected criticism. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06416-8.

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