Outputs (15)

Return of the Gift (2018)
Book
O'Neill, M. (2018). Return of the Gift. Arc

Michael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost. Writing unsentimentally and with insight about powerful subjects such as the death of his mother, caring for his father, and his own recent diagnosis of cancer, th... Read More about Return of the Gift.

The Romantic Poetry Handbook (2017)
Book
O'Neill, M., & Callaghan, M. (2017). The Romantic Poetry Handbook. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118308745

This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era—Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley—as well as works by other significant but less w... Read More about The Romantic Poetry Handbook.

The Lyric (2017)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M. (2017). The Lyric. In R. Haekel (Ed.), Handbook of British romanticism (183-200). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376692-010

This chapter examines the lyric in the Romantic period. It consists of an Introduction addressing some key issues: the lyric as the poetic embodiment of a “new poetics of spontaneity and self-expression” (Duff 2009, 53); the lyric as a form used for... Read More about The Lyric.

Reflections on the Poetic (2017)
Journal Article
O’Neill, M. (2017). Reflections on the Poetic. CounterText, 3(2), 203-218. https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2017.0089

The texts in this section follow on from a Roundtable discussion at the first CounterText conference, held at Durham University on 18–20 November 2016, on ‘The Poetic’. Aside from the papers and readings, the Roundtable had selected participants fram... Read More about Reflections on the Poetic.

John Keats in Context (2017)
Book
O'Neill, M. (Ed.). (2017). John Keats in Context. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107707474

Gleams and Dreams: Reflections on Romantic Rhyme (2017)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2017). Gleams and Dreams: Reflections on Romantic Rhyme. Romanticism, 23(2), 123-132. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0319

‘Gleam’ and ‘dream’: the rhyme performs a quintessential Romantic pairing and serves as a window opening on to the topic of rhyme in poetry of the period, not least through the serendipitous way in which it off-rhymes with the word ‘rhyme’ itself. Rh... Read More about Gleams and Dreams: Reflections on Romantic Rhyme.

Eliot: Form and Allusion (2016)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M. (2016). Eliot: Form and Allusion. In J. Harding (Ed.), The new Cambridge companion to T.S. Eliot (26-40). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139583411.004

James Longenbach has argued that “Eliot forces his readers to feel the weight of his allusions very strongly.” The point is thought-provoking; forcing us to “feel the weight of … allusions” is part of that process of “assuming a double part” which Ga... Read More about Eliot: Form and Allusion.

‘The Changed Measures of Light’: Post-Romanticism and Geoffrey Hill's Difficult Revelations (2016)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2016). ‘The Changed Measures of Light’: Post-Romanticism and Geoffrey Hill's Difficult Revelations. Romanticism, 22(3), 331-340. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0294

It is this essay's working hypothesis that, for the contemporary poet, Romanticism amounts to more than a set of possibilities from which the poet strolling round the thematic and prosodic shopping mall can select, before nipping off to the Renaissan... Read More about ‘The Changed Measures of Light’: Post-Romanticism and Geoffrey Hill's Difficult Revelations.

‘A Wilderness of the Most Rare Conceits’: Imagining Politics in the English Cantos of Don Juan (2016)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M. (2016). ‘A Wilderness of the Most Rare Conceits’: Imagining Politics in the English Cantos of Don Juan. In R. Beaton, & C. Kenyon Jones (Eds.), Byron : the poetry of politics and the politics of poetry (144-156). Routledge

Poetry and autobiography in the 1930s: Auden, Isherwood, MacNeice, Spender (2016)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M. (2016). Poetry and autobiography in the 1930s: Auden, Isherwood, MacNeice, Spender. In A. Smyth (Ed.), A history of English autobiography (331-344). Cambridge University Press

Turning to Dante: Shelley's Adonais Reconsidered (2016)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2016). Turning to Dante: Shelley's Adonais Reconsidered. Journal of Anglo-Italian studies, 13-14, 1-20

Poetic Education: Wordsworth, Yeats, Coleridge, Shelley (2015)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2015). Poetic Education: Wordsworth, Yeats, Coleridge, Shelley. Wordsworth circle, 46(2), 79-86

As they dramatize, implicitly or explicitly, the education involved in being a poet, Romantic poets meditate on what it is to know and to be free. Their meditations dwell in the light and shade cast by Schiller’s proposition in letter XV of Letters u... Read More about Poetic Education: Wordsworth, Yeats, Coleridge, Shelley.

'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822 (2014)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2014). 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822. Women's Writing, 21(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.881064

This essay takes its title from a phrase used by Maria Jewsbury in a review article of 1831, which discusses Hemans's mid-career change towards a more expressive and imaginative poetry. The essay illustrates how traces of Shelley's writings pervade t... Read More about 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822.

Ebb and Flow in The Excursion (2014)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2014). Ebb and Flow in The Excursion. Wordsworth circle, 45(2), 93-98

What will never do is the lingering notion that The Excursion requires nervously self-qualifying apologias. It needs to be stated roundly that the poem is a masterpiece, especially in Books I to IV (the main region of my concern), even if it is a mas... Read More about Ebb and Flow in The Excursion.

Reading Shelley (2014)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2014). Reading Shelley. Annual bulletin of Japan Shelley Studies Center, 22, 13-15