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Edward Ragg (born 11 October 1976) is an award-winning British poet, critic and writer on wine who, since 2007, has lived in Beijing, China. He was a Cinnamon Press Poetry Award winner (2012)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edward Ragg )〕 and his first book of poetry was ''A Force That Takes'' (Cinnamon Press, 2013). In 2010, he was the first foreigner to become an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (est. 1926) at Tsinghua University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University )〕 In 2007 he co-founded (Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting ) with his wife, the wine expert, Fongyee Walker.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dpwc.co )〕 == Early life and career == Ragg was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England and grew up in the Stockton and Billingham area. He was educated locally before winning academic and music scholarships to Oundle School (1988-1995).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Photos du journal - Old Oundelian Club - Facebook )〕 In 1994 Ragg won a scholarship to Keble College, Oxford where he completed a BA in English Language & Literature (with First Class Honours). His tutors included the poet Bernard O'Donoghue, Nigel Smith and Malcolm Parkes. In 1999 Ragg completed an MA in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University before being admitted to Selwyn College, Cambridge as a graduate scholar (1999-2005),〔 completing an M.Phil. in American Literature and Ph.D. on the work of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Force That Takes )〕 This led to his major critical study ''Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010)〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=Edward )〕 which was awarded a Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 and praised by J. Hillis Miller for its 'brilliant close reading of difficult poems'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=J. Hillis )〕 His first published poem appeared in the Cambridge ''May Anthology'' (2001 ed. Michael Donaghy) and, since 2004, he has published in international journals, anthologies and in book form.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edward Ragg )〕 His poems 'Mutton Fat Jade' and 'Punctuation Points' were both prize-winners, respectively, at the 2009 and 2014 Troubadour International Poetry Prizes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coffee-House Poetry : Troubadour Poetry Prize 2014 )〕 During 2004-05 Ragg was a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former Fellows )〕 where he co-organised, with Bart Eeckhout, the first major British conference on the work of Wallace Stevens in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance of Stevens' ''Collected Poems'', first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1955. In 2007 Ragg and his wife moved to Beijing, China and co-founded Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting, an independent wine education and consultancy service. Around this time, Ragg's poems in response to contemporary China began to be translated into Mandarin by leading contemporary Chinese poet Wang Ao, who has also translated the work of Seamus Heaney, W. H. Auden, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edward Ragg )〕 In 2010 Ragg was appointed an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (est. 1926), Tsinghua University, where he teaches classes in literature and wine. He is also an Editorial Board Member of ''The Wallace Stevens Journal'' (est. 1977).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Johns Hopkins University Press - The Wallace Stevens Journal )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Ragg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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