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Patrick McGuinness

Patrick McGuinness, a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.

Selected bibliography

  • The Canals of Mars (2004)
  • For Anatole’s Tomb by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Patrick McGuinness (2003)
  • Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin De Siecle (2001)
  • Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (2000)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘[Dust]’ · 3 June 2004

subscriber-only content Prophetic Chattiness · 19 June 2003

  • The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems by Victor Hugo, translated by Harry Guest
  • Selected Poetry by Victor Hugo, translated by Steven Monte
  • Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition edited by E.H. Blackmore and A.M. Blackmore

Notes for ‘Anatole’s Tomb’ · 14 November 2002

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 27 June 2002

subscriber-only content Roaming the stations of the world · 3 January 2002

  • Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
  • Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Karl Miller by Karl Miller

subscriber-only content Get rid of time and everything’s dancing · 5 October 2000

  • The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Her Book: Poems 1988-98 by Jo Shapcott
  • Zero Gravity by Gwyneth Lewis

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Going Electric · 7 September 2000

  • Poems by J. H. Prynne
  • Pearls that Were by J. H. Prynne
  • Triodes by J. H. Prynne
  • Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 edited by Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain

 not available in archive Enlarging Insularity · 20 January 2000

  • With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry by Donald Davie

 not available in archive Colloquially Speaking · 1 April 1999

  • The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 edited by Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford
  • The Firebox: Poetry from Britain and Ireland after 1945 edited by Sean O’Brien

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