list of contributors and taught in Massachusetts, as a University Professor and Professor of Literature
andReligion at Boston University. He is also Honorary Fellow of Keble College,
Oxford; Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
HisCollected Critical Writingsis under contract with Oxford University Press.
Daniel Karlinis Professor of English at the University of Sheffield. He previously
taught at University College London and Boston University. He editedThe Jungle
Booksfor Penguin Classics and the Oxford Authors volume of Kipling’s stories and
poems, and has published numerous articles on Kipling.
Tim Kendallis Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter. He has
published a book of poems,Strange Land, and full-length studies of Muldoon
and Plath. From 1994 until 2003 he edited the international poetry magazine
Thumbscrew.HislatestmonographisModern English War Poetry(2006), and his
next is a study of Robert Frost.
JohnLeeis Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. His main research interests lie
in the field of English Renaissance literature. Recent publications include ‘Refrains
and Echoes: Spenser’sAmoretti and Epithalamion’,Poetica(2006); ‘Reanimating
Criticism: Towards a Materialist Shakespeare’,English(2004); ‘Twins and Doubles
as an Aspect of Shakespeare’s Pluralism’,International Shakespeare Yearbook(2004);
and ‘Kipling’s ShakespeareanTraffics and Discoveries’,Shakespeare Studies(2003).
Edna Longleyis a Professor Emerita at Queen’s University Belfast. She is the author
ofPoetry & Posterity(2000), and editor ofThe Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century British
and Irish Poetry(2000). Her edition of Edward Thomas’s poems,The Annotated
Edward Thomas, will appear in 2007.
John Lyonteaches English Literature at the University of Bristol. He has published
on Shakespeare, seventeenth-century poetry, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph
Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, elegy, influence, and contemporary
poetry, particularly Geoffrey Hill.
Alan Marshallis Head of American Studies at King’s College London, and has
just completed a book on American poetry and democratic thought. He previously
held a lectureship at the University of York. His essays, poems, and reviews have
appeared in various books and journals.
Peter McDonaldis a poet and critic. He is editor of Louis MacNeice’sCollected
Poems(2006), and the author of, among other books,Serious Poetry: Form and
Authority from Yeats to Hill(2002). He has published four volumes of poetry, most
recentlyPastorals(2004) andThe House of Clay(2007). He works in Oxford, where
he is Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at
Christ Church.