Dr Andrew Hodgson BA (Hons.), MA, PhD

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Department of English Literature
Senior Lecturer in Romanticism

Contact details

Address
Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am interested in questions of voice, influence, and achievement in English poetry and in particular the poetry of the Romantic period. I teach across the spectrum of English literature - especially from the eighteenth-century onward.

Qualifications

  • BA, MA, PhD (Durham)

Biography

I came to Birmingham in 2016, having studied and taught at the University of Durham.

Teaching

This academic year I am teaching on first year Poetry and second year Romantics and Romanticisms modules, as well as offering third year options on Byron and Keats and on Love Poetry. I also convene the Poetry module and teach on the MA in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture.  

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome enquiries about research supervision related to any of my areas of interest.


Find out more - our PhD English Literature  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Research

Poetry; Lyric; Voice; Individualism; Romanticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Letters; Editing. 

Other activities

I have organised conferences on the origins and legacies of Romantic writing and thought and on rhyme in English Poetry.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Hodgson, A 2021, The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108915212

Hodgson, A 2020, The Poetry of Clare, Hopkins, Thomas, and Gurney: Lyric Individualism. 1st edn, Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30971-8

Hodgson, A 2019, The Poems of John Keats. Macmillan.

Article

Hodgson, A 2022, ''Complicated Windings’: ‘Mont Blanc’', European Romantic Review, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 667-681. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2022.2114211

Hodgson, A 2019, 'Thomas Gray’s Finish', SEL - Studies in English Literature, vol. 59, no. 3 (Summer 2019), pp. 531-557. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0024

Hodgson, A 2017, 'Clare on Wordsworth', Wordsworth Circle, vol. XLVII, no. 2.

Clarkson, O & Hodgson, A 2017, 'Romantic Rhyme and the Airs that Stray', Romanticism, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 111-122. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0318

Hodgson, A 2016, 'Clare's Lyric Impulse', The Cambridge Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 103-118. https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfw003

Hodgson, A 2016, 'Hopkins's Heart', Victorian Poetry, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 93-117. https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2016.0005

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Hodgson, A 2023, Charlotte Mew as a Tragic Poet. in F Riddell, M Girdwood & F Bratton (eds), Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Ecologics, Bodies. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hodgson, A 2023, Clare's Forms. in S Houghton-Walker (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to John Clare. Cambridge University Press.

Hodgson, A 2023, Syntax. in M Dubois (ed.), Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context. Cambridge University Press.

Chapter

Hodgson, A 2020, Clare's Ear. in Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hodgson, A 2020, Clare's Late Styles. in The Lost Romantics: Forgotten Poets, Neglected Works, and One-Hit Wonders.

Hodgson, A 2019, Rhetoric and Feeling in Rupert Brooke. in Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences.

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