Lewis Hyde

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Lewis Hyde is a scholar and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property.

Hyde received an M.A. from the University of Iowa and a B.A. from the University of Minnesota. He currently serves as the Luce Professor of Arts and Politics at Kenyon College in Ohio, and was a visiting fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center in 2006. He was a Nonresident Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and an "Osher Fellow" at the Exploratorium.^[1] He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (the "Genius" award) in 1991.

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Twenty Poems, by Vincente Aleixandre (1977) Translated by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly, edited by Lewis Hyde
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983)
The Poetry of Allen Ginsburg (Under Discussion) (1985)
Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking (1986)
This Error is the Sign of Love: Poems (1988) Milkweed Editions
"Elegy for John Cage" (1993) Kenyon Review 15 (3): 55-56
"American memory, American forgetfulness + Heritage and history" (1997) Kenyon Review 19 (1): U1-U4
"2 ACCIDENTS, REFLECTIONS ON CHANCE AND CREATIVITY" (1996) Kenyon Review 18 (3-4): 19-35
"The Land of the Dead" (1996) Kenyon Review 18 (1): 27-34
"Prophecy (An excerpt from the forthcoming book, Trickster Makes This World, Mischief, Myth, and Art)" (1998) American Poetry Review 27 (1): 45-55
Created Commons (Paper Series) (1998)
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998)
"Henry Thoreau, John Brown, and the problem of prophetic action (Excerpted from the introduction to The 'Essays of Henry D. Thoreau')" (2002) Raritan - A Quarterly Review 22 (2): 125-144
The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (2002) Edited by Lewis Hyde
Posts at On The Commons blog