Prof. Seth Herbst Associate Professor English and World Languages Personal Website seth.herbst [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Seth Herbst studies and teaches the relation between words and music in the early modern period, with particular interest in the poetry of John Milton and the drama and poetry of Shakespeare. He also explores later musical adaptations of Milton's and Shakespeare's works, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. Herbst's work has appeared in Essays in Criticism and in edited collections on Milton from Duquesne UP / Penn St. UP and Oxford UP. His first monograph, "Milton and Music," was published by Routledge in 2023. He is at work on a second book, "Shakespeare Without Words: Romeo and Juliet from Play to Ballet." At West Point, Herbst created a new interdisciplinary course on literature and music and is a past director of the core composition course. Ph.D.A.M., English Literature – Harvard UniversityA.B., English and Music – Harvard University Research Interests British literature, early modern literature, Shakespeare, Milton, lyric and epic poetry, words and music studies Current Research Book project Shakespeare Without Words: ROMEO AND JULIET from Play to Ballet Selected Publications BookHerbst, Seth. "Milton and Music." Routledge, 2023. https://www.routledge.com/Milton-and-Music/Herbst/p/book/9781032457215Peer-reviewed articles/book chaptersHerbst, Seth. "The Milton and Music Problem." In "Milton Across Borders and M," edited by Angelica Duran and Islam Issa. Oxford University Press, 2024. https://academic.oup.com/book/55876/chapter-abstract/439240151?redirect…Herbst, Seth. "Sound as Matter: Milton, Music, and Monism." In "Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment: One First Matter All," edited by Kevin J. Donovan and Thomas Festa. Duquesne UP / Penn State UP, 2017. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-8207-0702-0.htmlHerbst, Seth. "Milton and Music." "Essays in Criticism" 66, no. 1 (2016): 96-116. https://academic.oup.com/eic/article-abstract/66/1/96/2367180Reviews"Review of Simon Smith, Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625." "Renaissance Quarterly" 73, no. 3 (2020): 1099-1101. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterly/article/a…