Seamus Perry

Seamus Perry is a professor of English at Oxford. He is writing a Life of Auden.

In the LRB Archive:

• Wielded by a Wizard: Shelley’s Kind of Glee · 3 January 2019

  • Selected Poems and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy

• Uneven Stevens · 21 December 2018

• Housmania · 3 October 2018

• The Idea of Stevie · 17 August 2018

• Hardy’s neutral tones · 27 June 2018

• That’s what Wystan says · 10 May 2018

  • Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography by Edward Mendelson

• Arch Bishop · 14 November 2017

• Auden Anxieties · 30 August 2017

• Looking at Larkin · 11 May 2017

• Against the Same-Old Same-Old: The Brownings · 3 November 2016

  • The Brownings’ Correspondence, Vol 21 edited by Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Joseph Phelan, Edward Hagan and Rhian Williams
  • The Brownings’ Correspondence, Vol 22 edited by Philip Kelley, Scott Lewis, Joseph Phelan, Edward Hagan and Rhian Williams
  • Robert Browning edited by Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan
  • Browning Studies: Being Select Papers by Members of the Browning Society edited by Edward Berdoe

• Drugs, anyone?: George Meredith · 18 June 2015

  • Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads by George Meredith, edited by Criscillia Benford and Rebecca Mitchell

• Everything is good news: Dylan Thomas’s Moment · 20 November 2014

  • The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition edited by John Goodby
  • Under Milk Wood: The Definitive Edition edited by Walford Davies and Ralph Maud
  • Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas
  • A Dylan Thomas Treasury: Poems, Stories and Broadcasts

• Half-Fox: Ted Hughes · 29 August 2013

  • Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar edited by Keith Sagar
  • Ted and I: A Brother’s Memoir by Gerald Hughes

• The Shoreham Gang: Samuel Palmer · 5 April 2012

  • Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston

• Are we there yet?: Tennyson · 20 January 2011

  • The Major Works by Alfred Tennyson, edited by Adam Roberts

• Look on the Bright Side: Anna Letitia Barbauld · 25 February 2010

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment by William McCarthy

• Regrets, Vexations, Lassitudes: Wordsworth’s Trouble · 18 December 2008

  • William Wordsworth’s ‘The Prelude’: A Casebook edited by Stephen Gill

• Self-Management: Southey’s Genius for Repression · 26 January 2006

  • Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1793-1810 edited by Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts

• In Flesh-Coloured Silk: Romanticism · 4 December 2003

  • Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory by Paul Hamilton

• Hail, Muse!: Byron v. Shelley · 6 February 2003

  • The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time by Ian Gilmour
  • Byron and Romanticism by Jerome McGann

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