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 (Editor) Robert Crawford
Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at St Andrews University. He has taught at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow, and has been at St Andrews since 1989. His six collections of poetry in English include A Scottish Assembly (Chatto, 1990), The Tip of My Tongue (Cape, 2003) and Selected Poems (Cape, 2005); work in Scots includes Sharawaggi (Polygon, 1990). Four of his collections have been Poetry Book Society Recommendations and he has won two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards. With Simon Armitage he edited The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998) and with Mick Imlah The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000). A founding editor of the magazine Verse, he has served as a judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the National Poetry Competition, and other awards. In 2004 he delivered the Smithies Lectures at Balliol College, Oxford, and more recently he has lectured at Yale and Berkeley, as well as in France, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Robert Crawford's teaching interests include Scottish Literature, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, T. S. Eliot, and Creative Writing. His critical books include The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot (OUP, 1987), Identifying Poets (EUP, 1993), Devolving English Literature (Second Edition, EUP, 2000), The Modern Poet (OUP, 2001), and Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature (2007). He has also edited collections such as Robert Burns and Cultural Authority (EUP, 1997), The Scottish Invention of English Literature (CUP, 1998), and Heaven-Taught Fergusson (Tuckwell, 2003), The Book of St Andrews (Polygon, 2005), Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science (OUP, 2006), and Apollos of the North (Polygon, 2006).
Robert Crawford received his MA from Glasgow University and his DPhil from Oxford. He is a founding Fellow of the English Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. At present he is writing The Bard, a biography of Robert Burns to be published by Cape in January 2009. |
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