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Edward Larrissy
FEA
OccupationsLiterary scholar; poet
Academic background
EducationWadham College, Oxford
St John's College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish literature
Sub-discipline
Romanticism; modern and contemporary poetry; Irish literature
InstitutionsQueen's University Belfast
Notable works
William Blake (1985)
Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry (1990)
Yeats the Poet (1994)
Blake and Modern Literature (2006)
The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period (2007)

Edward Larrissy FEA is a British literary scholar and poet. He has served as Professor of Poetry at Queen's University Belfast and as Research Director at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His work focuses on Romanticism, modern and contemporary poetry, and Irish literature. He is a Fellow of the English Association and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Early life and education

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Larrissy studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, and later completed a D.Phil. at St John's College, Oxford in 1980 with a thesis on William Blake.[1]

Academic career

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Larrissy held early academic posts at University College, Bangor and the Polytechnic of North London before joining the University of Warwick, where he served as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer from 1980 to 1994. He later held senior positions at Keele University[2] and was appointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds in 1999.[3]

He subsequently joined Queen's University Belfast, where he became Professor of Poetry and Research Director at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.[3]

Larrissy was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2002.[4] In 2011, he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.[5]

Research and scholarship

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Larrissy's research is in Romanticism, modernism, and twentieth-century British, Irish, and American poetry.[6][7] His work has focused particularly on William Blake and W. B. Yeats, as well as on questions of gender, myth, ideology, literary value, and the relationship between Romanticism, postmodernism, and literary theory.[8][9][10]

His scholarship on Blake has considered the poet's literary, visual, and intellectual contexts, including Blake's engagement with Platonism, Orientalism, modern literature, and postmodern critical approaches.[11][12][13][14] Larrissy has also written on Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Patrick Kavanagh, along with contemporary British and Irish poetry.[15][16][17][18]

Books

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  • William Blake (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985)[19]
  • Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry: The Language of Gender and Objects (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990)[20][21]
  • Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994)[22]
  • (ed.) W. B. Yeats: The Oxford Authors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
  • W. B. Yeats (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1998)
  • (ed.) Romanticism and Postmodernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)[23]
  • (ed.) W. B. Yeats: The Major Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • Blake and Modern Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)[24][25]
  • The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)[26]

Poetry

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  • Three Poems, Sycamore Broadsheet 26 (Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1977)
  • ‘The Other Side of You’ and ‘Still with Your Eyes’, Green River Review: British Poetry Special, 6:2–3 (1980), pp. 51–53
  • ‘The Russians are Wearing Heavy Wooden Overcoats’, The Observer, 3 November 1985
  • ‘Bethesda, North Wales’, in Speak to the Hills: An Anthology of Twentieth Century British and Irish Mountain Poetry, ed. Hamish Brown and Martin Berry (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1985), pp. 73–74
  • ‘Galactic Diary of an Edwardian Lady’, in The Faber Book of Science, ed. John Carey (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1995)
  • “London, June 2016”, Poetry Ireland Review, no. 133 (April 2021), pp. 11–12.[27]
  • “The Ballad of the Fragment Cult; A Vision”, The Honest Ulsterman (online journal), February 2022

References

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  1. ↑ Larrissy, Edward T. (1980). The origins, development and meaning of the figure Urizen in the poetry, prophecies and graphic art of William Blake (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. doi:10.5287/ora-vmggaeovp. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
  2. ↑ "The Daily Poem: Galactic Diary Of An Edwardian Lady: (The two". The Independent. 21 February 1994.
  3. 1 2 "Edward Larrissy". Queen's University Belfast.
  4. ↑ "Fellows". The English Association.
  5. ↑ "Professor Edward Larrissy". Royal Irish Academy. 4 March 2026.
  6. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (1990). Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry: The Language of Gender and Objects. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 9780631153597.
  7. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2001). "Poetry and Gender". In Roberts, Neil (ed.). A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 101–112. ISBN 9780631215298. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  8. ↑ Hilton, Nelson (Fall 1986). "Edward Larrissy, William Blake". Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 20 (2): 66–68.
  9. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (1994). Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference. Harvester Wheatsheaf. ISBN 9780745016290.
  10. ↑ Larrissy, Edward, ed. (1999). Romanticism and Postmodernism (PDF). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521642729.
  11. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (1994). "Blake and Platonism". In Baldwin, Anna; Hutton, Sarah (eds.). Platonism and the English Imagination. Cambridge University Press. pp. 186–198. ISBN 9780521403085.
  12. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2005). "Blake's Orient". Romanticism. 11 (1): 1–13. doi:10.3366/rom.2005.11.1.1.
  13. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2006). Blake and Modern Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780230627444.
  14. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2006). "Blake and Postmodernism". In Williams, Nicholas M. (ed.). Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 254–273. ISBN 9781403915993.
  15. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2004). "Myth, Legend and Romance in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound". In Saunders, Corinne (ed.). A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary. Blackwell Publishing. pp. 438–453.
  16. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2010). "Hughes and Heaney". In O'Neill, Michael (ed.). The Cambridge History of English Poetry (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 918–935. ISBN 9780521883061.
  17. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2005). "Muldoon's Betweenness". English: The Journal of the English Association. 54 (209): 117–133. doi:10.1093/english/54.209.117.
  18. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2009). "The Great Hunger and Mother Ireland". In Smith, Stan (ed.). Patrick Kavanagh: Visions and Revisions. Irish Academic Press. pp. 93–106.
  19. ↑ Hilton, Nelson (Fall 1986). "Edward Larrissy, William Blake". Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 20 (2): 66–68. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
  20. ↑ Roberts, A. (1 June 1991). "Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry: The Language of Gender and Objects". English. 40 (167): 174–180. doi:10.1093/english/40.167.174.
  21. ↑ Robinson, Alan (1993). "REVIEWS". The Review of English Studies. XLIV (173): 130–132. doi:10.1093/res/XLIV.173.130.
  22. ↑ Greaves, Richard (November 1997). "Reviews". The Review of English Studies. 48 (192): 570–571. doi:10.1093/res/XLVIII.192.570.
  23. ↑ Punter, David (July 2001). "Edward Larrissy's Romanticism and Postmodernism". Romanticism. 7 (2): 223–226. doi:10.3366/rom.2001.7.2.223.
  24. ↑ Whittaker, J. (16 July 2007). "EDWARD LARRISSY. Blake and Modern Literature". The Review of English Studies. 58 (236): 579–581. doi:10.1093/res/hgm085.
  25. ↑ Longacre, Jeffrey (2007). "Review of Blake and Modern Literature". James Joyce Quarterly. 45 (1): 176–178. ISSN 0021-4183.
  26. ↑ O’Neill, Michael (2012). "The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period by Edward Larrissy". Studies in Romanticism. 51 (1): 111–114. doi:10.1353/srm.2012.0048.
  27. ↑ Larrissy, Edward (2021). "London, June 2016". The Poetry Ireland Review (133): 11–12. ISSN 0332-2998.
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