Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon

Michael O’Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published  books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian, and twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry. Recent books include, as editor, The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010) He received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990 and his second collection of poems, Wheel was published in 2008. 

Madeleine Callaghan is a lecturer in English at Sheffield University and has published articles on Shelley and Byron.  Her research interests focus on poetry from the Romantic period to the present. She is currently preparing a book on Wordsworth, Byron and Yeats for publication.