Robert H. Ray

Robert H. Ray, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1967. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He has taught a Shakespeare course in England with the Baylor-in-London program. His major scholarly and teaching interests are seventeenth-century English literature, especially the Metaphysical Poets, and sixteenth-century English literature, especially Shakespeare. He is a member of the graduate faculty.

• The Herbert Allusion Book: Allusions to George Herbert in the Seventeenth Century. Texts and Studies series. U of North Carolina P and Studies in Philology. Studies in Philology 83:4. 1986.
• Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's "King Lear." Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Modern Language Association. 1986
• A John Donne Companion. Garland Publishing. 1990.
• A George Herbert Companion. Garland Publishing. 1995
• An Andrew Marvell Companion. Garland Publishing, 1998.
• "Spatial and Aural Patterns in 'The Windows,'" George Herbert Journal, (1978)
• "Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 16,'" The Explicator, 1979
• "Herbert's Seventeenth-Century Reputation: A Summary and New Considerations," George Herbert Journal, 1986.
• "Herbert's Words in Donne's Mouth: Walton's Account of Donne's Death," Modern Philology, 1987.
• "Recent Studies in Herbert (1974-1986)," English Literary Renaissance, 1988.
• "Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Sandys's Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses," The Review of English Studies, (1993).
• "Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18'" The Explicator, 1994.
• "New Allusions to Sidney and Hooker," Notes and Queries, 1999.
• "A World of Questions: An Approach Indebted to Maynard Mack," forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's HAMLET, 2001.