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Name: David Pollard

Born: July 2, 1942 (England)

Interests: Poetry, Philosophy of Language, 								Religion, Phenomenology, Deconstruction.

Influences: Keats, Shakespeare, Celan, Carpentier, 							Fuentes, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, 								Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida.

David Pollard is a British writer living in Brighton who has published work on Keats, Blake, Nietzsche and recently published a book of poetry,

Career

Pollard escaped the trammels of accountancy as a mature student and studied English Literature at the University of Sussex where he got his three degrees (BA in English Literature in 1973, M.A. in The History of Ideas in 1974 and PhD in Philosophy of Language in 1982). His M.A. thesis is entitled: The Phenomenological Idea of History (1974) and seeks to replace the analytic method of judging history by privileging the underlying experiencing human perception of it. His Ph.D. thesis: The Fine Spell of Words: Experience with Language in the Poetry of John Keats is a Heideggerain interpretation of Keats’ work.

Pollard has taught at the University of Sussex, the University of Essex and held a Lady David Scholarship at the University of Jerusalem. He is currently co-editor with Dr Simon Jenner of the journal ‘Eratica’.

Works

The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience (1984 2nd Ed: 2000)

A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance to the Harvard Edition of the Letters of John Keats (1989) Nietzsche’s Footfalls: A Triptych (2001) Waterloo Sampler No: 4 (2005).

patricides (2006)

Essays

Self-annihilation and Self-overcoming in Exceedingly Nietzsche Ed: David Krell and David Wood (1992)

William Blake and the Book of Job in The was a Man in the Land of Uz: Ed Meira 		      Perry-Lehmann, Israeli museum Jerusalem (1992)

Plus Pollard is co-editor of Eratica, an occasional journal of the arts. He has had poetry published in Omphalos, Curate’s Egg, Tears in the Fence, Aletheia, Fire, Eclipse, Poetry Monthly.