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Professor Michael O'Neill - all publications

O'Neill, M. (2006). Contributions to Reference Works.

Books: authored

Hurley, Michael D. & O'Neill, Michael (2012). Poetic Form: An Introduction. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
Reiman, Donald H. Fraistat, Neil Crook, Nora Curran, Stuart O'Neill, Michael Neth, Michael J. & Brookshire, David (2012). The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, volume 3. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
(2008). Wheel (poems). Todmorden: Arc.
Hebron, S., Bindman, D. & O'Neill, M. (2007). Dante Rediscovered: From Blake to Rodin. Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust.
O'Neill, M. & Mahoney, C. (2007). Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell.
O'Neill, M. (2007). The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
O'Neill, M. (2004). A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W.B. Yeats. London: Routledge.
Leader, Z. & O'Neill, M. (2003). Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works: including Poetry, Prose, and Drama.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
O'Neill, M. & Reiman, D.H. (1997). Fair-Copy Manuscripts of Shelley's Poems in European and American Libraries. New York: Garland.
O'Neill, M. (1997). Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
O'Neill, M. & Reeves, G. (1992). Auden, MacNeice, Spender: The Thirties Poetry. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
O'Neill, M. (1990). The Stripped Bed. London: Collins Harvill.
O'Neill, M. (1989). Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
O'Neill, M. (1989). The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and Achievement in Shelley's Poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Books: edited

O'Neill, Michael, Howe, Anthony & with the assistance of Callaghan, Madeleine (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press.
O'Neill, Michael, Sandy, Mark & Wootton, Sarah (2012). Venice and the Cultural Imagination: 'This Strange Dream upon the Water'. Pickering & Chatto.
O'Neill, Michael & Callaghan, Madeleine (2011). Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon. Wiley-Blackwell.
O'Neill, Michael. (2010). The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
(2009). (ed.with Ash Amin), Thinking about Almost Everything. London: Profile.
O'Neill, M. & Sandy, M. (2006). Romanticism: Critical Concepts in Cultural and Literary Studies. London: Routledge.
O'Neill, M. (1998). Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
O'Neill, M. (1997). Keats: Bicentenary Readings. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP for the University of Durham.
O'Neill, M. (1994). 'The 'Defence of Poetry' Fair Copies.'. The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. New York: Garland.
O'Neill, M (1993). Shelley, Longman Critical Readers. London: Longman.

Books: sections

O'Neill, M. (2005). 'The All-Sustaining Air': Romantic Poetry and Some Twentieth-Century Heirs. In Romantic Voices, Romantic Poetics. Bode, C. & Rennhak, K. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 197-211.
O'Neill, M. (2005). Romantic Forms: An Introduction. In Romanticism: An Oxford Guide. Roe, N. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 275-291.
O'Neill, M. (2005). Silent Thought: Wordsworth, Suffering, and Inexpressibility. In From Wordsworth to Stevens: Essays in Honour of Robert Rehder. Mortimer, A. Oxford: Peter Lang. 13-27.
O'Neill, M. (2005). Why Then Ile Fit You: Poetry and Madness from Wordsworth to Berryman. In Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture. Saunders, C. & Macnaughton, J. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 144-158.
O'Neill, M. (2004). Poetry of the Romantic Period: Coleridge and Keats. In A Companion to Romance: From Classical To Contemporary. Saunders, C. Oxford: Blackwell. 305-320.
O'Neill, M. (2001). Keats and the 'Poetical Character'. In Placing and Displacing Romanticism. Kitson, P.J. Aldershot: Ashgate. 157-165.
O'Neill, M. (2001). Liking or Disliking: Woolf, Conrad, Lawrence. In Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel. Gravil, R. Aldershot: Ashgate. 169-179,197-198.
O'Neill, M. (2000). 'Exhibiting Unpreparedness': Self, World, and Poetry. In The Thing about Roy Fisher. Kerrigan, J. & Robinson, P. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 209-230.
O'Neill, M. (2000). Lamia: 'Thing Real - Things Semireal - And No Things'. In The Challenge of Keats. Christensen, A.C. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 125-142.
O'Neill, M. (1999). 'Holding Nature Up to Art': The Poetry of Derek Mahon. In Poetry Now: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry in the Making. Klein, H., Coelsch-Foisner, S. & Gortschacher, W. Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. 215-223.
O'Neill, M. (1998). Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. In A Companion to Romanticism. Wu, D. Oxford: Blackwell. 259-268.
O'Neill, M. (1996). Blake and the Self-Conscious Poem. In Trends in English and American Studies. Coelsch-Foisner, S. Lewiston, NY: Mellen. 145-159.
O'Neill, M. (1995). 'This Warm Scribe My Hand’ Writing and History in Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. In Keats and History. Roe, N. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 143-164.
O'Neill, M. (1993). ‘The Bounds of the Air Are Shaken’ The Shelleyan Visionary Lyric. In Shelley 1792-1992. Hogg, J. Salzburg: University of Salzburg Press. 1-14.
O'Neill, M. (1992). 'And All Things Seem Only One':The Shelleyan Lyric. In Essays and Studies 1992:Percy Bysshe Shelley:Bicentenary Essays. Everest, K. Cambridge: Brewer. 115-131.
O'Neill, M. (1988). Larkin’s The Whitsun Weddings: The Importance of Difference. In Philip Larkin 1922-85: A Tribute. Hartley, G. London: Marvell Press. 184-197.
O'Neill, M. (1987). Shelley’s Epipsychidion: The Before Unapprehended Relations of Things. In Essays in Criticism. 135-157.
O'Neill, M. (1983). Shelley’s The Triumph of Life: Questioning and Imagining. In An Infinite Complexity: Essays in Romanticism. Watson, J.R. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 161-180.

Edited works: journals

(2008). ' Guest editor Romanticism and its Legacies’, special issue of Romanticism, 14. 1 (2008). Romanticism, 14 (1).

Essays in edited volumes

O'Neill, Michael (2012). 'Yeats, Clarke, and the Irish Poet's Relationship with English'. In The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. Brearton, Fran & Gillis, Alan. Oxford University Press. 42-57.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). ‘Romantic and Victorian Poetry’. In T. S. Eliot in Context. Harding, Jason. Cambridge University Press. 200-210.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). '"A Kind of an Excuse": Shelley and Wordsworth Revisited'. In Literature and Authenticity, 1780-1900. Chantler, Ashley, Davies, Michael & Shaw, Philip Ashgate. 51-66.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). '"Admirable for Conciseness and Vigour": Dante and English Romantic Poetry's Dealings with Epic'. In Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Reception, Canonicity, Popularization. Havely, Nick. Lang. 11-29.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). 'The Romantic Sonnet'. In The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet. Cousins, A. D. & Howarth, Peter Cambridge University Press. 185-203.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). Realms without a Name: Shelley and Italy’s Intenser Day. In Dante and Italy in British Romanticism. Burwick, Frederick & Douglass, Paul Palgrave Macmillan. 77-91.
O'Neill, Michael. (2010). ‘Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Form and Feeling in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song’. In A Companion to Romantic Poetry. Mahoney, Charles Wiley-Blackwell. 9-24.
O'Neill, Michael. (2010). 'Early Yeats: "The Essences of Things"'. In W. B. Yeats. Larrissy, Edward. Irish Academic Press. 31-47.
O'Neill, Michael. (2010). 'The Outset of Life': Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination. In English Romantic Writers and the West Country. Roe, Nicholas Palgrave Macmillan. 257-70.
O'Neill, Michael. (2010). Romantic re-appropriations of the epic. In The Cambridge Companion to the Epic. Bates, Catherine. Cambridge University Press. 193-210.
(2009). In
O'Neill, Michael. (2009). 'Beautiful but Ideal': Intertextual Relations between Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Percy Bysshe Shelley. In Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790-1835. Lau, Beth. Farnham: Ashgate. 211-229.
O'Neill, Michael. (2009). 'Fond of What He’s Crapping On’ Movement Poetry and Romanticism. In The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries. Leader, Zachary. Oxford: Oxford UP. 270-291.
Heys, Alistair. & Kostadinova, Vitana. (2009). 'In the Sea of Life Enisled’ Byron and Arnold, in Byron and the Isles of Imagination: A Romantic Chart, ed. Alistair Heys and Vitana Kostadinova (Plovdiv: Plovdiv University Press, 2009), 66-86. In Byron and the Isles of Imagination: A Romantic Chart. Plovdiv: Plovdiv UP. 66-86.
O'Neill, Michael. (2009). 'The Wheels of Being’ Tennyson and Shelley. In Tennyson among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays. Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. & Perry, Seamus. Oxford: Oxford UP. 181-198.
O'Neill, Michael. (2009). Coleridge's Genres. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Burwick, Frederick. Oxford: Oxford UP. 375-391.
O'Neill, Michael. (2009). Emulating Plato: Shelley as Translator and Prose Poet, in The Unfamiliar Shelley, ed. Alan M. Weinberg and Timothy Webb (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 239-55. In The Unfamiliar Shelley,. Weinberg, Alan M. & Webb, Timothy. Aldershot: Ashgate. 239-255.
Andrew Radford & Mark Sandy (2008). ‘Infinite Passion’ Variations on a Romantic Topic in Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, Swinburne, Hopkins, Wilde, and Dowson. In Romantics Echoes in the Victorian Era. Aldershot: Ashgate. 175-189.
Bernard Beatty, Tony Howe & Charles E. Robinson (2008). 'A Very Life in Our Despair’ Freedom and Fatality in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III and IV,. In Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron. Liverpool: Liverpool UP. 37-49.
O'Neill, M. (2007). '"Conscript Fathers and Shuffling Recruits” Formal Self-Awareness in Romantic Poetry'. In Romanticism and Form. Rawes, A. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 23-39.
O'Neill, M. (2007). '"The Latch-String of a New World's Wicket": Poetry and Agency in Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy'. In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Berns, U. & Bradshaw, M. Aldershot: Ashgate. 33-47.
O'Neill, M. (2006). 'The All-Sustaining Air': Yeats, Stevens, Rich, Bishop -- Responses to Romantic Poetry. In The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of Romantic Influence in Twentieth-Century Literature. Davies, Damian Walford. & Turley, Richard Marggraf. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 143-162.
O'Neill, M. (2005). 'The Muse at Her Toilet': Patrick Kavanagh's Late Sonnets. In Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future. O'Malley-Younger, A. & Beardow, F. Sunderland University Press. 133-142.
O'Neill, M. (2003). ‘The Tears Shed or Unshed’ Romantic Poetry and Questions of Biography. In Romantic Biography. Bradley, A. & Rawes, A. Aldershot: Ashgate. 1-17.
O'Neill, M (2003). 'Even Now While I Write': Leigh Hunt and Romantic Spontaneity. In Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics. Nicholas Roe London: Routledge. Routledge Studies in Romanticism 2: 135-155.
O'Neill, M. (2001). 'Lyrical Ballads and "Pre-Established Codes of Decision"'. In 1800: The New 'Lyrical Ballads'. Trott, N. & Perry, S. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 123-140.
O'Neill, M. (2001). Romantic Workings of Genre: Lyrical Ballads and Prometheus Unbound. In Generi Letterari: Ibridismo e Contaminazione. Sportelli, A. Laterza: 168-183.
O'Neill, M. (1999). Poetry as Literary Criticism. In Oxford University Press. 117-136.
O'Neill, Michael. (Published). Shakespearean Poetry and the Romantics. In The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry. Post, Jonathan. OUP.

Journal papers: academic

O'Neill, Michael (2013). What Thou Art: Emily Brontë’s Visionary Religion. Bronte Studies 38(1): 000-000.
O'Neill, Michael (2012). “Anxious Cares” From Pope’s Spleen to Coleridge’s Dejection. Studies in the Literary Imagination 44(1): 99-118.
O'Neill, Michael (2012). Shelley's Defences of Poetry. The Wordsworth Circle 43(1): 20-25.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). ‘"A Double Face of False and True": Poetry and Religion in Shelley'. Literature and Theology 25 : 32-46.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). '"Visions Rise, and Change": Emily Brontë's Poetry and Male Romantic Poetry'. Brontë Studies 36: 57-63.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). 'Antipathy and Sympathy: Lamb's Response to Shelley, Byron, and Keats'. Charles Lamb Bulletin n.s (154.): 89-99.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). 'Southey and Shelley Reconsidered'. Romanticism 17: 10-24.
O'Neill, Michael. (2011). 'Telling Stories: Southey and Romantic Narrative'. The Wordsworth Circle 42: 33-38.
O'Neill, Michael (2009). ‘"A Deeper and Richer Music": Felicia Hemans in Dialogue with Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley'. Charles Lamb Bulletin 145: 3-12.
O'Neill, Michael. (2009). ‘"Admirable for Conciseness and Vigour" Dante and Romantic Epic'. Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 10: 15-27.
O'Neill, Michael. (2009). ‘Something Intended, Complete’ Yeats and the Remodelled Self, in a special issue of the e-journal Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 51 (2009), guest ed. Mark Sandy and Sarah Wootton. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 51.
O'Neill, Michael. (2008). ‘"The Inmost Spirit of Light": Shelley and Turner'. Turner Society News 109; 110: 7-12; 6-8.
O'Neill, Michael. (2008). '"The Fixed and the Fluid": Identity in Byron and Shelley'. Byron Journal 36(2): 105-116.
O'Neill, M. (2007). '"Driven as in Surges": Texture and Voice in Romantic Poetry'. The Wordsworth Circle 38(3): 91-93.
O'Neill, M. (2007). '"The Tremble from It Is Spreading": A Reading of Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"'. The Charles Lamb Bulletin new series 139(July 2007): 74-90.
O'Neill, Michael. (2007). 'Inspiration Is Inspiration': In Memory of Robert Woof and Jonathan Wordsworth. European Romantic Review 18(2): 283-297.
O'Neill, M. (2006). A Magic Voice and Verse: Byron's Approaches to the Ode: 1814-1816. The Byron Journal 34(2): 101-114.
O'Neill, M. (2006). Fashioned from His Opposite: Yeats, Dante and Shelley. Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies (8): 149-171.
O'Neill, M. (2006). The Burden of Ourselves: Arnold as a Post-Romantic Poet. The Yearbook of English Studies 36(2): 111-127.
O'Neill, M. (2005). The Gleam of Those Words: Coleridge and Shelley. Keats-Shelley Review (19): 76-96.
O'Neill, M (2004). ‘Adonais and Poetic Power’. The Wordsworth Circle 35(2): pp. 50-7.
O'Neill, M. (2004). 'Only What Might Have Been': Lamb and Illusion. The Charles Lamb Bulletin (128): 96-107.
O'Neill, M. (2002). 'The Whole Mechanism of the Drama': Shelley's Translation of the Symposium. Keats-Shelley Review (18): 51-67.
O'Neill, M. (2001). ‘Shining in Modest Glory’ Contemporary Northern Irish Poets and Romantic Poetry. Wordsworth Circle (32): 59-65.
O'Neill, M. (2001). Cathestant or Protholic?:Shelley's Italian Imaginings. Journal of Angle-Italian Studies (6): 153-168.
O'Neill, M. (2000). 'Wholly Incommunicable by Words': Romantic Expressions of the Inexpressible. Wordsworth Circle (31): 13-20.
O'Neill, M. (1999). 'A Storm of Ghosts':Beddoes, Shelley, Death and Reputation. Cambridge Quarterly 28(2): 102-115.
O'Neill, M. (1999). John Montague and Derek Mahon: The American Dimension. Symbiosis 3(1): 54-62.
O'Neill, M. (1998). Wedded to Verse: Wordsworth and Coleridge. Wordsworth Circle` 29(2): 98-106.
O'Neill, M. (1997). 'Trying To Make It as Good as I Can’ Mary Shelley's Editing of Shelley's Poetry and Prose. Romanticism 3(2): 185-197.
O'Neill, M. (1996). The Sensitive-Plant. Cambridge Quarterly 25(2): 103-123.
O'Neill, M. (1996). The Words he Uttered.: A Reading of Wordsworth. Romanticism on the Net (3).
O'Neill, M. (1995). 'That Dome in Air’ Coleridge and the Self-Conscious Poem. Romanticism 1(2): 252-271.
O'Neill, M. (1994). Making and Faking in the Poetry of W.H. Auden. Critical Survey (6): 342-350.
O'Neill, M. (1994). Yeats and Stevens: Two Versions of Post-Romantic Self-Consciousness. New Poetry Quarterly (1): 21-35.
O'Neill, M. (1993). Percy Bysshe Shelley Special Issue. Durham University Journal 273-292.
O'Neill, M. (1991). ‘A Being More Intense’ Byron and Romantic Self-Consciousness. Wordsworth Circle (22): 165-172.
O'Neill, M. (1989). A More Hazardous Exercise: Shelley’s Revolutionary Imaginings. Yearbook of English Studies (19): 256-264.
O'Neill, M. (1988). ‘The Knowledge of Contrast, Feeling for Light and Shade’ Amy Clampitt’s ‘Voyages: A Homage to John Keats’. Keats-Shelley Review (3): 47-61.
O'Neill, M. (1987). Fictions, Visionary Rhyme, and Human Interest: A Reading of Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas. Keats-Shelley Review (2): 105-133.