Albert Cook

Albert Cook is Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of comparative literature, English, and classics at Brown University. He is a prolific poet, playwright, and critic. His twentieth work of literary criticism, The Burden of Prophecy extends his 1968 study, The Root of the Thing: A Study of Job and the Song of Songs. Cook has translated Oedipus Rex and the Odyssey into English verse and published seven books of poetry and numerous essays. He also has published two plays and had four produced.

Albert Cook is Ford Foundation Professor Emeritus of comparative literature, English, and classics at Brown University. He is a prolific poet, playwright, and critic. His twentieth work of literary criticism, The Burden of Prophecy extends his 1968 study, The Root of the Thing: A Study of Job and the Song of Songs. Cook has translated Oedipus Rex and the Odyssey into English verse and published seven books of poetry and numerous essays. He also has published two plays and had four produced. See less