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McDonald, Dr Peter
Job Title: CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow
College: Christ Church
Period/ Subject: 20th/ 21st Century
Email address: peter.mcdonald@chch.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
English Poetry, Romantics - the present; Yeats and Irish poetry; creative writing.
Teaching Areas:
19th, 20th and 21st century poetry; Irish literature; American poetry; Creative writing.
Recent Publications:
Books
Literary criticism:
Louis MacNeice: The Poet in his Contexts (1991)
Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (1997)
Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (2002)
Sound Intentions: Rhyme and Repetition from Wordsworth to Hardy (forthcoming, 2010)
(as editor)
Louis MacNeice: Selected Plays (with Alan Heuser)(1993)
Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (with Tim Kendall) (2004)
Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems (2007)
Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work (with John Lyon) (forthcoming, 2010)
Poetry:
Biting the Wax (1989)
Adam's Dream (1996)
Pastorals (2004)
The House of Clay (2007)
Other Information:
Current projects include a major multi-volume edition of the poetry of W.B. Yeats.
Website: www.towerpoetry.org.uk
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