Matthew Campbell

Matthew Campbell writes mainly about poetry from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. He taught Victorian, Modern and Irish literature at Sheffield University before going to York as Professor of Modern Literature in 2011. His first book was on Victorian poetry and he was the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry. In 2013 CUP published his Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801-1924, a book about the invention of Irish poetry in English by figures like Moore, Ferguson, Mangan and Yeats across the period in which Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. Current projects include a history of the last two centuries of Irish poetry.