Dr Anthony Howe
Dr Anthony Howe is Reader in English Literature and聽Director of Graduate Research for English at 探花直播. Originally from the North East of England, he studied at Liverpool (BA; MA) before taking a PhD at Cambridge. Prior to his current post he taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. He is a Senior Fellow of the HEA.
Dr Howe鈥檚 major research concern is in the field of English Romantic period poetry, especially Byron and Shelley.
His first monograph,聽Byron and the Forms of Thought (Liverpool, 2013)聽has been described in the聽BARS Review聽as a 鈥榝ine new study鈥�,聽鈥榳ell-written鈥�, 鈥榝ull of insights鈥�, and 鈥榗ombining a strong awareness of Byron鈥檚 various intellectual engagements with consistently persuasive interpretations of the poetry鈥�. The聽Byron Journal聽writes that:
鈥楬owe鈥檚 work represents a promising turn in Byron studies. As we seek to explain and justify the role of literary studies and single-author studies in particular, texts like this one come to our aid ... One can hope that the conversations Howe begins in this book 鈥� on text, form, language, and politics 鈥� come to dominate Byron studies in the coming years鈥�.
He is also co-editor, with Michael O鈥橬eill, of The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley, a major collection of essays that has become a key point of reference in聽Shelley studies. Christopher Stokes, writing in the聽Byron Journal, remarks that:
鈥榦ne cannot fail to be impressed 鈥� by a book that offers such a thorough and learned overview of all aspects of Shelley, whilst also striking any reader on any given page with sharp and surprising readings of individual moments, contexts or stanzas鈥�.
Dr Howe is currently working on a new聽monograph,聽Letter Writing and the Romantic Poem, which will be the first book-length, scholarly and literary-critical study of Romantic period epistolary writing. The book will discuss epistolary culture and the material conditions of epistolary exchange in the period. There will also be chapter length studies of epistolary identity and the writing of poems into letters. Author-specific studies of Byron, Shelley and Keats as letter-writer poets, make up the remainder.
Related to this project is a collection of essays, Romanticism and the Letter, eds Madeleine Callaghan and Anthony Howe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), that brings together a range of world-leading Romanticists to discuss the period鈥檚 letter writing from a variety of new perspectives.
Dr Howe is an advisory editor to the Byron Journal聽and an editorial board member of the Keats-Shelley Review.