Keywords
American literature, Auden, English, Modern & contemporary poetry in English, Modernism, Poetry and place, TS Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Wallace Stevens
Research Areas
English Literature and Creative Writing
Dr Tony Sharpe
Senior Lecturer
County College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YD
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Tel: +44 1524 5 93817
Location: B97
My research interests are in modern and contemporary English and American writing, with a particular but not exclusive interest in poetry. Most of my books have focused on poetry (Eliot, Stevens, Auden), and my most recent has been an edited collection of essays about Auden from Cambridge University Press (2013). My current research continues these interests, including work on Auden and Stevens as well as on more contemporary writers, and at a broader level connects with areas such as: writing and landscape (or place); writing and the religious impulse; writing and seeing (including the extension beyond textual into visual), and critical creativity.
Research Interests
Tony Sharpe 's main research interests are in modern British and American literature, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on poetry. In addition to articles and chapters, his principal mongraphs to date have been on Vladimir Nabokov (1991), T.S. Eliot (1991), Wallace Stevens (2000) and W.H. Auden (2007). Most recently he has edited a collection of essays, W. H. Auden in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has also published essays which explore the creative side of critical writing. He is interested in connections between writing and place, writing and religion, and the extension of the book beyond textuality.
He is himself a Dorset man happily transplanted to Cumbria, where he lives with his wife and children.
Current postgraduate students:
Siobhan Campbell (creative writing Ph.D. jointly with Paul Farley)
2013
W H Auden in Context
Sharpe, A. (ed.) 03/2013 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 417 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Auden's Northerliness
Sharpe, A. 03/2013 W H Auden in context. Sharpe, T. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Introduction
Sharpe, A. 2013 W.H. Auden in context. Sharpe, T. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2012
"The North, My World": W.H. Auden's Pennine Ways
Sharpe, A. 15/06/2012 The Literary North. Cockin, K. (ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2011
'Our never-to-be-slighted "fun"'
Sharpe, A. 2011 Crrritic!: Sighs, Cries, Lies, Insults, Outbursts, Hoaxes.... Schad, J. & Tearle, O. (eds.). Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, p. 25-42
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Final Beliefs: Stevens and Auden
Sharpe, T. 03/2011 In: Literature and Theology. 25, 1, p. 64-78
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
"Having to Construct": Dissembly Lines in the "Ariel" Poems and Ash-Wednesday
Sharpe, T. 2009 A Companion to T.S. Eliot. Chinitz, D. (ed.). UK: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 191-203
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2008
Conversion Narratives or 'The Farmer and the Cowboy Should be Friends'
Sharpe, A. 2008 In: British and Irish Contemporary Poetry. 1, 1, p. 63-71, 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2007
Paysage moralise: Auden and maps.
Sharpe, T. 12/2007 In: Auden Newsletter. 29, p. 5-12, 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2006
The Planet on the Table: Some Modernist Perspectives on Globalism.
Sharpe, A. E. 2006 Globalisation and its Discontents: Writing the Global Culture. Boydell and Brewer, 104 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2004
Auden's Prose.
Sharpe, A. E. 2004 Cambridge Companion to W H Auden. Cambridge University Press, 110 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2000
Wallace Stevens: a literary life.
Sharpe, T. 2000 New York: St. Martin's Press. 220 p. (Literary lives).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
1999
(Per)versions of law in literature.
Sharpe, A. E. 1999 Law and literature. Freeman, M. D. A. & Lewis, A. D. E. (eds.). 1999, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 91-115 25 p. (Current legal issues).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
1991
T S Eliot: a literary life
Sharpe, A. 1991 Macmillan. 189 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
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