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Dr Tony Sharpe

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

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 publications to date consist of books on Vladimir Nabokov (1991), T.S. Eliot (1991), and Wallace Stevens (2000). He is currently working on a critical study of W.H. Auden, alongside an additional project exploring Auden's use of place-names and locations in the North of England.

He is himself a Dorset man happily transplanted to Cumbria, where he lives with his wife and children.

Recent and forthcoming publications:

'Auden's Prose', Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden, ed. Stan Smith, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 110-22

'"The Planet on the Table": Some Modernist Perspectives on Globalism', Globalisation and Its Discontents: Writing the Global Culture, Essays Marking the Centenary of the English Association, ed. Stan Smith, (Suffolk and New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2006), pp. 104-23

W.H. Auden (Abingbdon and New York: Routledge, 2007)

'Paysage Moralise: Auden and Maps', The W.H. Auden Society Newsletter, 29 (Dec. 2007), pp. 5-12

FORTHCOMING in 2008

'"Having to Construct": Dissembly Lines in the Ariel Poems and Ash-Wednesday', in Blackwell Companion to T.S. Eliot (ed. David Chinitz)

'Conversion Narratives or "The Farmer and the Cowboy Should Be Friends"', British and Irish Contemporary Poetry, No 1, (Liverpool University Press)

Under consideration: '"And There I Found Myself More Truly and More Strange": Wallace Stevens and Virtual Paris'; '"The North, My World"': W.H. Auden's Pennine Ways'.

Current postgraduate students:

David Cooper, 'The Poetics of Place and Space: An Approach to the Writing of Norman Nicholson', M.Phil/PhD., 2003-present (jointly with Sally Bushell).

Associated Keywords: American literature, Auden, English, Modern & contemporary poetry in English, Modernism, Poetry and place, TS Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Wallace Stevens

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