Raymond A. Anselment was born December 4,1939, and educated in both Minnesota and New York. After teaching for a year as a lecturer at the University of Rochester, he accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at the University of Connecticut, where he is currently a Professor of English specializing in seventeenth-century English literature. The author of three dozen articles, an edited collection of essays on two plays of George Farquhar, and a facsimile edition of Thomas Taylor's work on typology, Anselment has also published three book-length scholarly studies that range across various seventeenth-century periods and issues. The first, entitled Betwixt Jest and Earnest, explores the practices and limitations of religious ridicule in a number of prose controversialists, including Milton, Marvell, and Swift. The second book, Loyalist Resolve, focuses on the poetic responses to the political conflicts of the Caroline and Interregnum decades. The Realms of Apollo, chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book, explores the ways in which seventeenth-century poets confronted the realities of such everyday threats as infant mortality, plague, syphilis, and smallpox. Anselment's diverse scholarly interests are further evident in the more than twenty authors he has studied in essays published in most of the significant British, American, and Canadian journals in his field, including Review of English Studies, Medical History, Modern Language Review, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, The Seventeenth Century, ELH, Studies in English Literature, Modern Philology, the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, the Journal of the History of Ideas, Philological Quarterly, Studies in Philology, Huntington Library Quarterly, the Journal of British Studies, Restoration, Papers on Language and Literature, Essays in Literature, Literature and Medicine, Prose Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature and Renaissance and R
