Dr Peter McDonald | Christ Church, Oxford

Qualifications

M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.)

Role or Position

Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language (since 1999)

Email address

peter.mcdonald@chch.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background

u/g and p/g University College, Oxford. JRF Christ Church, Oxford 1986-8. Fellow and Lecturer in English, Pembroke College, Cambridge 1988-92. Lecturer (subsequently Reader) in English, University of Bristol 1992-1999.

Undergraduate Teaching

Poetry in English, Renaissance - the present

Research Interests

19th and 20th century poetry; Yeats and his legacy; contemporary poetry.

Publications include

(criticism)

Louis MacNeice: The Poet in his Contexts (1991); Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (1998); Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (2002)

(as editor):

Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice (1993); Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (2003) Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems (1997)

(poetry)

Biting the Wax (1989); Adam's Dream (1996); Pastorals (2004); The House of Clay (2007)

Hobbies

Cooking

Links

http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk


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