Eric Linn Ormsby (born 1941 in

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, Georgia) is deputy head of academic research and publications at the

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in London. He was formerly a professor at

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, where he also served as director. He has published widely on Islamic thought, including ''Theodicy in Islamic Thought'' (1984). Ormsby has had six collections of poetry published, including ''Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems'' (1990), which won a Quebec prize for the best poetry of that year. His poems have been published in ''

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'' and ''

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'', and have been anthologized in

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Selected works

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *''West-Eastern Divan: Complete, annotated new translation, including Goethe’s ‘Notes and Essays’ & the unpublished poems'', translated by Eric Ormsby, 2019. Gingko

External links

"Eric Ormsby"
''The New Yorker''.
"Eric Ormsby — Archive"
''The New York Sun''.
"Eric Ormsby"
QWF literary database of Quebec English-language authors.
Interview in McGill Reporter

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