Paul Bentley
Job Title:
Senior Lecturer
School/Department:
CCS
Contact Number:
01752 636700 Ext: 3101
Email:
pbentley@marjon.ac.uk
Qualifications:

BA Hons., MA, PhD
Research Background:

Contemporary Poetry; Literary Theory
Research Interests:

Contemporary poetry: I'm especially interested in developments and movements in British and Irish poetry since the Second World War, and have written on poets such as Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Peter Redgrove and Paul Muldoon.  I'm also interested in Romantic poetry, and have written on responses to Keats in his time as a 'Cockney' poet, as well as on the role of superstition in Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballards.  I'm currently working on a paper on Keats's Odes as ironic responses to his construction as a 'Cockney' poet.
Teaching Areas:

Poetry; contemporary poetry; Romanticism; nineteenth-century literature; creative writing – poetry.
Publications:

The Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion and Beyond. Longman 1998;
Scientist of the Strange: The Poetry of Peter Redgrove Fairleigh Dickinson 2002.
Other Interests:

Writing poetry: have placed poems with poetry magazines such as Poetry Review and The Manhattan Review.  I enjoy exploring the ways in which poetry can intersect with 'low' or popular culture - e.g. sport, TV, popular music.  I'm currently working on a first book.

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