Tom Dilworth is a Killam Fellow and University Professor in the English Department
at the University of Windsor, Ontario. He has published widely on Modern literature
and Romantic poetry and is the author of The Shape of Meaning
in the Poetry of David Jones (1988), which won the British Council Prize in the Humanities. He
edited Inner Necessities: the Letters of David Jones to
Desmond Chute (1984),
Jones’s Wedding Poems (Enitharmon, 2002) and Jones’s illustrated
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Enitharmon, 2005). He has written the critical introductions
and afterwords for the bilingual (English/French) Ad Solem editions of The
Anathemata,
The Sleeping Lord, and Le Dit Du Vieux Marin. He is currently co-editing Composition
as Conversation: the Letters of Gertrude Stein, Virgil
Thomson, and Alice B.
Toklas and writing the biography of David Jones. His recent poems have appeared
in Notre Dame Review, Salmagundi, Rampike, Ontario
Review, and Poetry (Chicago).