Anne Lingard Klinck (née Anne Lingard Hibbert) is a Canadian academic and writer. The focus of her work is on the classics and she is an authority on the female voice in
lyric poetry
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...
.
Early life
She was born to British-Canadian father Sydney Hibbert as Anne Lingard Hibbert.
Education
Klink has a bachelor's and a master's degree from the
University of Oxford
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She also has a master's degree from
McGill University
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and she also has a master's and a PhD from the
University of New Brunswick
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North Ameri ...
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Career
Klink worked at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) for eighteen years before retiring
as Professor Emerita.
While working at UNB she co-directed the English programs.
She is an authority on the female voice in
lyric poetry
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...
.
Selected publications
* ''Animal Imagery in Wulf and Eadwacer and the Possibilities of Interpretation'', Papers on Language and Literature, 23 (1): 3–13
* ''The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study'', 1992 and 2001,
McGill-Queen's University Press
* ''The Southern Version of Cursor Mundi'' , 2000,
University of Ottawa Press
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* Anne Kilnck and Anne Marie Rasmusen, ''Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches'', 2002,
University of Pennsylvania Press
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The press was originally incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on 26 Ma ...
* ''An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song'' , 2004
Palgrave Press
* ''Woman’s Songs in Ancient Greece'', 2008,
McGill-Queen's University Press
* ''The Voices of Medieval English Lyric: An Anthology of Poems,'' 2019
McGill-Queen's University Press,
References
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Canadian women academics
Alumni of the University of Oxford
McGill University alumni
University of New Brunswick alumni
University of New Brunswick faculty
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)