Staff at the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London
Howarth Portrait

Dr Peter Howarth, BA (Oxford) PhD (Cambridge)
Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature

email: p.howarth@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7882 2689

Research interests:

Peter Howarth's research interests are in modern poetry, particularly the intersection of aesthetic form with social context. He is the author of the Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry (2011), British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (CUP, 2006), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (2011). Recent articles have discussed the psychology of modernism and anti-modernism in A. E. Housman, the fragment in T S Eliot, and the problem of historicising Creative Writing. His reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books. He teaches teachers for Queen Mary, the English Subject Centre / CCUE, among others, and he is currently principal supervisor for two Ph.D students.

Publications:

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2006). Pbk 2009. Ch. 5 reprinted in Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry: A Reader, ed. by M. S. O’Neill (Blackwell, 2010).

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry (2011)

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, ed. with A. D. Cousins (2011)

'"Water's Soliloquy": Soundscape and Environment in Alice Oswald's Dart', Poetry and Geography, ed. by David Cooper and Neal Alexander (Liverpool University Press, 2012)

‘Eliot and the Georgians’, T. S. Eliot in Context, ed. Jason Harding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 221-231

‘The Modern Sonnet’, The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, ed. Howarth and A. D. Cousins (2011). pp. 225-244

‘Fateful Forms: Hardy, Housman, Thomas, Mew’, in The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century English Poetry, ed. by Neil Corcoran (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 59-73

‘Housman’s Dirty Postcards: Poetry, Modernism and Masochism’, PMLA 124:3 (May 2009), 761-781

‘Creative Writing and Schiller’s Aesthetic Education’, Journal of Aesthetic Education, 41:3 (2007), 41-58

‘Eliot in the Underworld: the Politics of Fragmentary Form’, Textual Practice, 20:3 (2006), 441-462. Reprinted in Poetry Criticism, 90 (Gale, 2008). Noted article in The American Scholar (2008)

‘Rupert Brooke’s Celebrity Aesthetic’, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 49:4 (2006), 1-21