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Glyn Pursglove

Specialist Subjects: Seventeenth and twentieth century poetry

Books:

(1981) Francis Warner and Tradition: An Introduction to the Plays (Colin Smythe, vii, 232pp.)

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(1988) Francis Warner's Poetry: A Critical Assessment (Gerrard's Cross, Colin Smythe, 320pp.)

(1989) Distinguishing Poetry, writings on poetry by William Oxley, edited by Glyn Pursglove (Universität Salzburg, vi, 245pp.)

(1991) Henry Reynolds: Tasso's 'Aminta' and Other Poems, edited and annotated by Glyn Pursglove (University of Salzburg, 227pp.)

(1992) I poeti ferraresi nel Rinascimento inglese (Atti e memorie. deputazione provinciale ferrarese di storia patria, vii, 241pp.)

(1992) English version of above - The Poets of Ferrara in Renaissance Britain, published simultaneously by the same publisher

(1992) Selected Poems of Richard Niccols. Edited and Annotated by Glyn Pursglove (University of Salzburg, vi, 260pp.)

(1995) A Bibliography of the Writings of Peter Russell (Salzburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 250pp.)

(1997) Something About Poetry: Selected Lectures and Essays by Peter Russell, edited and introduced by Glyn Pursglove (University of Salzburg, xii, 283pp.)

(1997) From the Apocalypse of Quintilius: Poems by Peter Russell, edited and introduced by Glyn Pursglove (University of Salzburg, xxxv, 233pp.)

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(1997) The Poems of Henry Hughes, edited by Glyn Pursglove, with introduction and notes (University of Salzburg, xxxi, 77pp.)

(2005) The Marionettes, by Bahram Beyza’i, translated from Persian (with P. Loloi), Salzburg, Poetry Salzburg,  112 pp.

Co-edited Books:

(1994) Writing Region and Nation, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, ed. J. A. Davies and G. Pursglove, with M. W. Thomas and A. J. Varney, (University of Wales Swansea, ix, 583pp). This volume was co-edited by four members of the English department in Swansea. Professor Thomas, Dr. Davies and Mr. Varney organised the conference of which this volume constitutes the proceedings; I was almost solely responsible for the editorial preparation of the final text.

(1996) Summoning the Sea: an anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Prose, edited by Glyn Pursglove and Wolfgang Görtschacher (University of Salzburg, 358pp)

(1999) A Glass of New Made Wine: William Oxley at Sixty, edited by Glyn Pursglove and Wolfgang Görtschacher (Poetry Salzburg, ii, 156pp.)

(1999) Oxford in Verse, edited by Glyn Pursglove and Alistair Ricketts (Perpetua Press, xv, 192pp.)

(2002) William Gamage, 'Linsie-woolsie' (1613). A hypertext edition by Glyn Pursglove: http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/gamage/

(2003) Sir John Stradling, Beati Pacifici (1623). A hypertext edition by Glyn Pursglove: http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/strad2/

 

Essays, Chapters in books, etc.:

(1975) "Kenneth Patchen's The Journal of Albion Moonlight: some introductory notes", Poetry Information, 12/13, pp.19-24.

(1976) "Ronald Johnson's The Book of the Green Man: an ancient vision", Poetry Information, 15, pp.34-37.

(1977) "Erected Wit and Infected Will: Some Notes Towards a Reading of Meeting Ends", Francis Warner, Poet and Dramatist, ed. Tim Prentki (Sceptre Press) pp.39-52)

(1977) "Jeremy Hilton: 'the however frail concourse of souls'", Poetry Information, 16, pp.20-22.

(1977) "Velimir Khlebnikov: Futurist Darvish", Poetry Information, 17, pp.69-73

(1978) "An Interview with Thomas A. Clark", Poetry Information, 18, pp.12-20.

(1983) "Othello e la continuità di Shakespeare", Othello dal testo alla scena, ed. M. Tempera (Editions CLUE, Bologna) pp. 93-110.

(1983) "Interview with Chris Torrance", Poetry Wales, 19:2, pp.134-145.

(1984) "Robert Tofte, Elizabethan Translator of Boiardo", The Reniassance in Ferrara and Its European Horizons / Il Rinascimento a Ferrara e i suoi orizzonti Europei, ed. J. Salmons and W. Moretti (University of Wales Press / Mario Lapucci) pp. 111-122.

(1987) "William Oxley and the idea of the long poem: A Map of Time", Vitalism and Celebration, ed. J. Hogg (University of Salzburg), pp.23-40.

"But Horace, Sir, was delicate, was nice", The Many Review,5, pp.16-23.

(1989) "The Poetry of Roy Campbell: The Bull and the Crystal", Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory, 77:3, pp.50-71.

(1993) "Ernest Dowson's 'Full Pierrot'", Studies in the Commedia dell'Arte, ed. D. J. George and C. J. Gossip (University of Wales Press) pp.139-159.

(1993) "The Inevitable Surprise: thoughts on the poetry of Edward Lowbury", Physic Meet and Metaphysic: A Celebration for Edward Lowbury, ed. Y. Lovelock (University of Salzburg) pp.41-50

(1994) "Robert Anderson", Eighteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, ed. S. Serafin (Bruccoli Clark Layman) pp.3-11.

(1994) "Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges", Eighteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, ed. S. Serafin (Bruccoli Clark Layman) pp.47-60.

(1994) "'The Life behind the Thing': Peter Russell's 'The Holy Virgin of Mileseva", Agenda, 32: 3/4, pp.84-96.

(1994) "Alexander Gilchrist", Nineteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, ed. S. Serafin (Bruccoli Clark Layman) pp.108-116.

(1994) "George Gilfillan", Nineteenth-Century British Literary Biographers, ed. S. Serafin (Bruccoli Clark Layman) pp.117-126.

(1995) "Epic into novel: the case of Bunyan's The Holy War", in Narrative Strategies in Early English Fiction, eds. W. Görtschacher and H. Klein (Salzburg University Studies) pp. 319-31.

(1995) "E. V. Lucas", Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literary Biographers, ed. S Serafin (Bruccoli Clark Layman), pp.148-158.

(1995) "Single nature's Double Name", Acumen, 22, 13-21.

(1996) "'The Bird's Undying Voice" in the Poetry of Peter Russell", The Road to Parnassus: Homage to Peter Russell on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, ed. J. Hogg (University of Salzburg), pp.254-268.

(1996) "William Strode's 'Fair Chloris' and her Metamorphoses", Trends in English and American Studies, ed. S. Coelsch-Foisner, W. Görtschacher and H. Klein (Edwin Mellen Press) pp.111-128.

(1996) "Mimi Khalvati", Acumen, 25, pp.9-10.

(1996) "An Interview with John Heath-Stubbs", The Swansea Review, 16, pp.16-23.

(1996) "Unconnected thoughts on anthologies", Acumen, 24, pp.52-57.

(1996) "Looking After the Parrots", Summoning the Sea, ed. G.Pursglove and W. Görtschacher (University of Salzburg), pp. 297-300.

(1997) "Dana Gioa", Acumen, 27, pp.46-48.

(1997) "Henry Vaughan and the energies of rhyme", Scintilla, 1, pp.143-157.

(1998) "James Kirkup and the conversation of the poets", in Diversions: A Celebration for James Kirkup on his Eightieth Birthday, ed. J. Hogg (University of Salzburg) pp.201-14.

(1999) "'The story talks louder than the paint': from canvas to page in some contemporary poems", Poetry Now: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry in the Making, ed. H. Klein, S. Coelsch-Foisner and W. Görtschacher (Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999) pp.113-22.

(1999) "'Number Makes a Schism': Number and Unity in Vaughan", Scintilla, 3, pp.13-181.

(1999) "Shallow rivers and sour canals: some transformations of Marlowe's 'Passionate Shepherd to His Love'", Elizabethan Literature and Transformation, ed. S. Coelsch-Foisner (Stauffenburg Verlag) pp.213-26.

(2000) "R.S.Hawker's The Quest of the Sangraal", Private and Public Voices in Victorian Poetry, ed. S. Coelsch-Foisner and H. Klein (Stauffenburg Verlag) pp.39-49.

(2000) "R.S.Hawker, Arthurian Poet of Cornwall", Acumen, 36, pp. 630-70.

(2000) "Links in The Golden Chain: contexts for a lyric by Peter Russell", The Swansea Review, 19, pp.95-111 [Italian reprint as a booklet: Pian di Sco, La Turbina, 2000]

(2001) "'Bright Shadows': the religious wit of Henry Vaughan", Scintilla, 5, pp.117-138.

(2001) 'And what is the is in And what is’, Poetry Salzburg Review, 2, 34-47.

(2001) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 39, 123-126.

(2001) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 40, 124-127.

(2001) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 41, 112-122

(2002) "The Finder of Crystals: Geoffrey Grigson as Anthologist", My Rebellious and Imperfect Eye: Observing Geoffrey Grigson, ed. C. C. Barfoot and R. M. Healey (Rodopi), pp.205-220.

(2002) 'Henry Vaughan and the Glance of Love: Thoughts on 'The Favour', Scintilla, 6, pp. 7-20.

(2002) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 42, 120-4.

(2002) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 43, 117-24. 

(2002) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 44, 115-20.

(2002/03) '"Grace beyond a curled lock": Further Thoughts on Henry Vaughan's "Isaac's Marriage", Connotations, 12, pp.167-182.

(2003) "'The Possibility of Grace': Mozart and Some English Poets", Austria and Austrians: Images in World Literature, ed. W. Görtschacher and H. Klein (Stauffenburg Verlag), pp. 195-208.

(2003) "'That cultured vice': Verse and Conversation in Desmond O'Grady", The Wide World, ed. W. Görtschacher and A. Schachermayr (Poetry Salzburg), pp. 101-111.

(2003) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 45, 114-117.

(2003) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 46, 124-126.

(2003) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 47,  119-126

(2004) '"A Very Court and Palace": The Architecture of William Painter's Palace of Pleasure', in Tale, Novella, Short Story: Currents in Short Fiction, ed. W. Gortschacher, H. Klein, Tubingen, Stauffenberg Verlag, pp.27-38.

(2004) '"Winged and free": Henry Vaughan's Birds', in Of Paradies and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honour of Alan Rudrum, ed. Donlad R. Dickson and Holly Faith Nelson, Newark, University of Delaware Press, pp.250-268.

(2004) '"Taught him at the well': relfections on 'Isaac's Marriage'", Scintilla, 8, pp.178-190.

(2004) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 48, 120-122. 

(2004) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 49,  119-20. 

(2004) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 50, 248-250.

(2005) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 51,  117-120.

(2005) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 52,  121-126.

(2005) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 53,  116-120.

(2005) ‘“Awful innocence”: William Oxley’s Poetic Conversation with Coleridge’ in The Romantic Imagination: A William Oxley Casebook, ed. W. Görtschacher and A. Schachermayr, Salzburg, Poetry Salzburg, 31-48.

(2005) ‘Rethinking the Devil’s Thoughts: Coleridge and Southey’, in The Author as Reader, ed. S. Coelsch-Foisner and W. Görtschacher, Frankfurt Am Main, Peter Lang, 45-56.

(2005) ‘Prose Fiction and Fable’, The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol.3: 1660-1790, ed. Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, Oxford, O.U.P., 291-305 [GP’s contribution pp. 299-305].

(2005) ‘Freedom on a String: The Theatre of the Marionette’, in The Marionettes by Bahram Beyza’i, ed. J-A. George, Parvin Loloi and G. Pursglove. Salzburg.

(2006) ‘Storms turn to music’, Scintilla, 10,  54-75.

(2006) ‘Little Corellas and Twenty Eights’, Poetry Salzburg Review, 10, 92-95.

(2006) ‘Prick-Song Ditties: Musical metaphor in the Bawdy Verse of the Early Modern Period’, in “And Never Know the Joy”: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry, ed. C.C. Barfoot, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 65-88.

(2006) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 54, 118-124. 

(2006) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 55, 116-120.

(2006) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 56, 115-120.

(2007) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 57, 121-128.

 (2007) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 58, 114-120. 

(2007) ‘Poetry Comment’, Acumen, 59, 117-122.

(2007) ‘Sites/Sights of the Self’, Poetry Salzburg Review, 11, 59-71.

Bibliographical research:

(1993) "Edward Lowbury: a bibliography", Physic Meet and Metaphysic: A Celebration for Edward Lowbury, ed. Y. Lovelock (University of Salzburg, pp.10-12.)

(1995) "An Index to Acumen, Issues 1-20", Acumen, 21, pp.120-30.

(1996) "A Preliminary Checklist of Critical Writings on Peter Russell", The Road to Parnassus: Homage to Peter Russell on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, ed. J. Hogg (University of Salzburg), pp.199-210.

(2000) "Nine: An Index", The Swansea Review, 19, pp.136-152. Republished as part of U.K. Little Magazines Project, http://english.ntu.ac.uk/littlemagazines/default.asp 

(2000) "Index to Issues 21-35 of Acumen", Acumen, 36, pp.241-50.

(2000) "An index to New Measure", published as part of U.K. Little Magazines Project: http://english.ntu.ac.uk/littlemagazines/default.asp 

Co-authored essays, chapters in books, etc.:

(1978) "Basil Bunting's Persian Overdrafts", by Parvin loloi and Glyn Pursglove, Poetry Information, 19, pp.51-58. Reprinted in Basil Bunting: Man and Poet, ed. C. F. Terrell (National Poetry Foundation) 1981, pp.343-353.

(2000) "'The Worse for Drink Again': Basil Bunting's Translations from Hafiz", by Parvin Loloi and Glyn Pursglove, The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and British Modernism, ed. J. McGonigal and R. Price (Rodopi) pp.185-203.

Co-authored Bibliographical research:

(1977) "Migrant: an index", by Glyn Pursglove and Peter Hodgkiss, Poetry Information, 17, pp.95-98.

(1977) "Sesheta: An Index", by Glyn Pursglove and Peter Hodgkiss, Poetry Information, 17, pp.99-104.

(1980) "The Resuscitator: an Index", by Glyn Pursglove and Peter Hodgkiss, Poetry Information, 20/21, pp.138-141.

(1980) "Poetry Review: An Index to issues edited by Eric Mottram", by Glyn Pursglove and Peter Hodgkiss, Poetry Information, 20/21, pp.142-154.

Contributions to Reference Works:

(1985) Essays on Ronald Bottrall, Krnward Elmslie, Robert Kelly, Brendan Kennelly and William Oxley in Contemporary Poets, ed. J. Vinson and D. L. Kirkpatrick (St James Press), pp. 74-75, 231-232, 445-447, 449-450, 640-641.

(1991) Essays on Alison Brackenbury, Anthony Conran, Peter Dale, Kenward Elmslie, David Gascoyne, Robert Gittings, John Hollander, Anthony Howell, Glyn Jones, Robert Kelly, Brendan Kennelly, Brad Leithauser, Roland Mathias, John Moat, William Oxley, Robert L. Peters, Anne Ridler, John Smith and Gwyn Williams in Contemporary Poets, ed. T. Chevalier (St. James Press), pp. 90-91, 166-167, 204-206, 269-270, 330-331, 345-346, 433-435, 453-455, 486-487, 498-501, 503-504, 547-549, 611-612, 661-662, 731-733, 755-757, 810-812, 920-922, 1064-1065.

(1993) Essays on Ernesto Cardenal, Nina Cassian, Aimé Césaire, Blaga Dimitrova, Matthias Johannessen, Ferenc Juhász, Ku Sang, Solveig von Schoultz, Marin Sorescu, and Wislawa Szymborska in Contemporary World Writers, ed. T. Chevalier (St. James Press) pp. 97-98, 105-107, 111-113, 148-9, 277-279, 279-281, 300-301, 464-466, 497-499, 509-510.

(1994) Essays on "The Black Dog" (Coppard), "The Pope's Mule" (Daudet), "A Recluse" (De la Mare), "The Suicide Club" (Stevenson), "Twenty-Six Men and A Girl" (Gorky), "The Unknown Masterpiece" (Balzac) and "The Wedding"(Pritchett), Reference Guide to Short Fiction, ed. N. Watson (St. James Press), pp.649-50, 852-3, 864, 916-7, 944, 954, 965-6.

(1996) Essays on Alison Brackenbury, Peter Dale, Kenward Elmslie, David Gascoyne, John Hollander, Brad Leithauser, Roland Mathias, William Oxley, Robert L. Peters, Anne Ridler and John Smith, in Contemporary Poets, ed. T. Riggs (St. James Press) 101-2, 230-1, 307-8, 373-5, 497-9, 551-3, 570-3, 575-6, 627-8, 830-2, 858-61, 912-4, 1034-5.

(2000) Essays on "Robert Herrick"; "Robert Herrick: Hesperides"; "Robert Herrick: Noble Numbers"; "Thomas Carew"; "Thomas Carew: Coelum Britannicum"; Thomas Carew: Poems (1640); "Sir John Suckling"; "Sir John Suckling: Brennoralt"; "Sir John Suckling: Fragmenta Aurea"; "Sir John Suckling: Sessions of the Poets"; "Sir John Suckling: The Goblins"; "Edmund Waller"; "Edmund Waller: Divine Poems"; Edmund Waller: Instructions to a Painter"and "Edmund Waller: Poems (1645)", electronically published in The Literary Dictionary http://www.LiteraryDictionary.com/friclx.html

(2000) Miscellaneous contributions on seventeenth-century poetry in Annotated Bibliography for English Studies http://abes.swets.nl/abes/ 
(2000) Essays on "Archetypal Criticism", "Fredson Bowers", "A. C. Bradley", "Donald Davie" and "George Saintsbury" in The Encyclopaedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, ed. C. Murray (Fitzroy Dearborn), pp.45-7, 158-62, 166-78, 287-90, 978-81.

(2000) Essays on "Anacreon", "Catullus", "Chapman", "Guarini: The Faithful Shepherd", "Horace: Odes and Epodes", "Juvenal: Satires", "Martial", "Persius", "Tibullus", "Virgil: Aeneid" in The Encyclopaedia of Literary Translation into English, ed. O. Classe, (Fitzroy Dearborn), Vol. I, pp.43-5, 238-40; 260-2; 590-1; 663-4; 743-4; Vol. II, pp.924-6, 1064-5, 1393-4, 1475-6.

(2003) Essays on Joseph Addison, Barnabe Barnes, Samuel Butler, Thomas Campion, Richard Corbett, Michael Drayton, William Drummond of Hawthornden, George Gilfillan, John Heath-Stubbs, Robert Herrick, James Howell, Henry King, James Kirkup, Henry Lawes, Robert Lovelace, George Peele, Thomas Randolph, Peter Russell, James Shirley, Thomas Stanley, William Strode, Aurelian Townshend and Izaak Walton in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. S. Serafin (Continuum), pp. 5-6, 63-64, 147-148, 155-156, 219-220, 281-282, 283-284, 402-403, 459-460, 465-466, 489-490, 550-551, 554-555, 570-571, 613-614, 752-753, 809-810, 862-863, 908-909, 940-941, 957-958, 989-990, 1019-1020.

(2003) Essays on Anthony Jenkinson and Sir Henry Wotton in Literature of Travel And Exploration: An Encyclopedia ed. J. Speake (Fitzroy Dearborn), pp.649-650, 1296-1298.

(2004) Biographical/Critical essays, each of 2,000 words, contributed to Literature Online  on: Robert Burton, John Evelyn, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea.

(2005)Biographical/Critical essays, each of 2,000 words, contributed to Literature Online (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/) on Henry Chettle, Richard Corbett, Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, Michael Drayton, William Drummond, Thomas ‘Urfey, Richard Hakluyt, John Hall, Thomas Heywood, Raphael holinshed, James Howell, John Lyly, Thomas Otway, George Puttenham, Thomas Stanley, William Strode, Joshua Sylvester, John Taylor.

(2005) Biographical/Critical essays, each of 600 words, contributed to Literature Online (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/) on Ludovico Ariosto, William Byrd, Austin Dobson, Juvenal, Richard Tottel.

(2006)  Biographical/Critical essays, each of 2,000 words, contributed to Literature Online (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/) on: Richard Brome; Samuel Butler; Sir William Davenant; Sir John Denham; John Dowland; Fulke Greville; Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Henry King; Richard Lovelace; Anthony Munday; Sir Thomas North; William Prynne; William Rowley; Sir John Suckling; Edmund Waller; Thomas Warton, the Younger; George Wither; Sir Henry Wotton. 

(2006) Biographical/Critical essays, each of 600 words, contributed to Literature Online (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/) on Pierre de Ronsard; Jeremy Taylor.

(2007) Biographical/Critical essays, each of 2,000 words, contributed to Literature Online (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/) on: Alexander Barclay, Thomas Betterton, Hayden Carruth, John Cleveland, Cid Corman, George Darley, John Day, Richard Eberhart, Richard Flecknoe, John Hall-Stevenson, Richard Howard, Walter Kennedy,  Archibald Lampman, William Meredith, Peter Reading, Nicholas Rowe, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Warton (1688-1745), C. K. Williams, Nicholas Udall, Marguerite Yourcenar,.

(2007) Biographical/Critical essays, each of 600 words, contributed to Literature Online (http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/) on John Dickson Carr, Edward Dowden, Gabriel Harvey, 2007.

Reviews:

Acumen, Agenda, Anglo-Welsh Review, Durham University Journal, European Journal of English Studies; New Welsh Review, P.N. Review, Outposts, Poetry Information, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shakespeare Yearbook, Welsh History Review and elsewhere.

General Information

College of Arts & Humanities
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TEL: +44 (0) 1792 205678
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E-MAIL: G.Pursglove@swansea.ac.uk

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