Contributors

Lyrics of Ascent
Poetry and the Platonic Tradition – An Anthology

List of Contributors

The list below includes the names and affiliations of all who have contributed entries to the Anthology, followed by the names of the poets they chose, as well as by letters indicating whether they selected the poems cited (S), introduced them (I) and / or translated them (T). 

Andrews, Walter / University of Washington
—Hayâlî (S, T)
—Caʿfer Çelebi (S, T) 

Brundin, Abigail / University of Cambridge
—Michelangelo Buonarotti (S, I)
—Vittoria Colonna (S, I, T)

D’Ancona, Cristina / University of Pisa
—Dante (S) 

Demirkol, Neslihan / University of Münster (with Mehmet Kalpaklı)
—Asaf Hâlet Çelebi (S, I, T)
—Behçet Necatigil (S, I)
—Sezai Karakoç (S, I)
—Hilmi Yavuz (S, I)
—Birhan Keskin (S, I)

Dedes, Yorgos / SOAS, University of London
—Hayâlî (I)
—Caʿfer Çelebi (I)
—Fuzuli (S, I, T)

Ernst, Carl W. / University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
—Azar Kayvan (S, I, T)

Ghazoul, Ferial / The American University in Cairo
—Muhammad Afifi Matar (S, I, T)

Havlioğlu, Didem / Duke University
—Mihri Hatun (S, I, T)

Hernández de la Fuente, David / Universidad Complutense, Madrid
—Delphic Oracle on Plotinus, cited by Porphyry (S, I)
—Gregory of Nazianzus (S, I)
—Proclus of Athens (S, I)
—Nonnus of Panopolis (S, I)
—Christodoros of Coptus (S, I)
—Paul the Silentiary (S, I)
—John of Gaza (S, I, T)
—George of Pisidia (S, I)
—Symeon the New Theologian (S, I)
—Michael Psellos (S, I)
—Plethon (George Gemistus) (S, I)

Kalpaklı, Mehmet / Bilkent University, Ankara (with Neslihan Demirkol)
—Asaf Hâlet Çelebi (S, I, T)
—Behçet Necatigil (S, I)
—Sezai Karakoç (S, I)
—Hilmi Yavuz (S, I)
—Birhan Keskin (S, I)

Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad / University of Maryland
—Jalal al-Din Rumi (S, T)
—Forough Farrokhzad (S, T)
—Sohrap Sepehri (S, T)
—Abbas Kiarostami (S, T)
—Bijan Elahi (S, T)

Key, Andrew / Stanford University
—Al-Hallaj (S, T)
—Robert Duncan (S)

Maldonado, Caroline
—José Ángel Valente (T)

Murata, Kazuyo / King’s College London
—Ruzbihan Baqli (S, I, T)

O’Reilly, Terence / University College, Cork
—Francisco de Aldana, Carta para Arias Montano (S, I, T)

Ostle, Robin / University of Oxford
—Nasib Arida (S, I, T)
—Mikha’il Nu‘ayma (S, I, T)

Qutbuddin, Aziz / Zahra Hasanaat Welfare Association (with Tahera Qutbuddin)
—Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin (S, I, T)

Qutbuddin, Tahera / University of Chicago (with Aziz Qutbuddin)
—Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin (S, I, T)

Ricks, David / King’s College London
—Kostis Palamas (S, I, T)
—C.P. Cavafy (S, I, T)
—Zissimos Lorenzatos (S, I, T).

Robinson, Peter / University of Reading
—Eugenio Montale (S, I, T)

Rodríguez Fer, Claudio / University of Santiago de Compostela
—José Ángel Valente (S, I)
—Claudio Rodríguez Fer (S, I)

Roe, John / University of York
—John Donne (S)
—Henry More (S)
—William Wordsworth (S)
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (S)
—William Butler Yeats (S)

Sperl, Stefan / SOAS, University of London
—Boethius (S)
—Rabi’a al-‘Adawiyya (S, I)
—Abu Tammam (S, I, T)
—Al-Hallaj (I)
—Ibn Sina (S, I)
—Ibn Arabi (S, I, T)
—Al-Shushtari (S, I)
—Hafez (S)
—Claudio Rodríguez Fer (S)

Tanenbaum, Adena / Ohio State University
—Solomon Ibn Gabirol (S)
—Judah ha-Levi (S, T)

Thompson, Colin / University of Oxford
—Garcilaso de la Vega (S, I)
—Francisco de Quevedo (S, I)
—Fray Luis de León (S, I, T)
—San Juan de la Cruz (S, I, T)

Weiss, Julian / King’s College London
—Francisco de Aldana, Sonnet XII (S, I)
—Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán (S, I, T)
—Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (S, I)

Yeshaya, Joachim / University of Leuven
—Moses ben Abraham Dar’i (S, I, T)
—Aaron ben Joseph ha-Rofe (S, I, T)
—Joseph ben Samuel (S, I, T)