Clive Wilmer

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Biography

Clive Wilmer is a poet, critic and lecturer. He has taught at Cambridge for the past 35 years. He is Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge.

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) English, University of Cambridge King's College

MA, University of Cambridge King's College

Research

Editing the poems of Thom Gunn.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Ruskin, Morris and Medievalism', The Ruskin Review and Bulletin, 6.1 (Spring 2010). The Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture, University of Lancaster, 1996 , 2010
‘Pound, Dante and the Homeric Underworld’, Agenda, 34:3-4 (Autumn-Winter, 1966-67), pp. 135-144 , 1966

BOOKS

New and Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet Press, forthcoming January 2012). Poems , 2012
(Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994). Interviews , 1994
William Morris, News from Nowhere and Other Writings (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993). Edition, with introduction and notes , 1993
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Selected Poems and Translations (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1991). Edition, with introduction , 1991
John Ruskin, Unto this Last, and Other Writings (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985). Edition, with introduction, commentary and notes , 1985
Poets Talking: The 'Poet of the Month' Interviews from BBC Radio 3 (UNKNOWN)

BOOK CHAPTERS

'In and Out of the Movement' in The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and their Contemporaries, ed. Zachary Leader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) , 2009
'Gunn, Shakespeare, and the Elizabethans' in At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn, ed Joshua Weiner (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009) , 2009
'The Falling Rocket: Ruskin, Whistler and Abstraction in Art' in Pictures of Modernity: The Visual and the Literary in England, 850-1930, eds. Loretta Innocenti, Franco Marucci and Enrica Villari (Venice: Cafoscarina, 2008) , 2008
'The Later Fortunes of Impersonality: "Tradition and the Individual Talent"and Postwar Poetry' in T.S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition, eds. Giovanni Cianci and Jason Harding (Cambridge: C.U.P. 2007) , 2007
'Ruskin and the Sense of an Ending: Apocalypse and Literary Form' in Ruskin's Struggle for Coherence: Self-Representation through Art, Place and Society, eds. Keith Hanley and Rachel Dickinson (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006) , 2006
‘Sculpture and Economics in Pound and Ruskin’, in Ruskin and the Twentieth Century: The Modernity of Ruskinism, ed. Toni Cerutti (Vercelli: Edizioni Mercurio, 2000), pp. 169-187 , 2000

Memberships

Honorary fellow, Anglia Ruskin University

Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College

Director of the Guild of St. George

Affilaited Lecturer, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

Master of the Guild of St George

Forthcoming courses

Shakespeare’s Sonnets: an Introduction | Summer Programme course

Close Readings: ten great poems of the period 1880-1980 | Summer Programme course

Past courses taught

Close readings: ten great poems of the period 1840-1940 | Summer Programme course

‘An essence that’s not seen’: appearance and reality in Othello | Summer Programme course

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations | Summer Programme course

Vaulting Ambition: The Tragedy of Macbeth | Summer Programme course

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations | Summer Programme course

Shakespeare's King Lear: why must Cordelia die? | Summer Programme course

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist | Summer Programme course

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations | Summer Programme course

What happens in Hamlet | Summer Programme course

Coriolanus | Summer Programme course

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist | Summer Programme course

WB Yeats: 10 great lyric poems | Summer Programme course

Coriolanus | Summer Programme course

Falstaff | Summer Programme course

The Waste Land and other poems | Summer Programme course

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist | Summer Programme course

Falstaff! | Summer Programme course

Two great novellas by Henry James: The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw | Summer Programme course

The Waste Land and other poems | Summer Programme course

Vaulting ambition: The Tragedy of Macbeth | Summer Programme course

Antony and Cleopatra:a Roman thought about Egypt | Summer Programme course

Vaulting ambition: The Tragedy of Macbeth | Summer Programme course

Selected English poems, 1870-1915 | Summer Programme course

Three tales by Henry James | Summer Programme course

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