Hugh Haughton
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Biography
Born in Cork in the Republic of Ireland, I studied at Cambridge and Oxford Universities before joining the staff at York.
My main interests lie in twentieth-century Irish literature, modern poetry and poetics in the UK, US and Ireland; psychoanalysis and literature; and the literature of nonsense. I have recently written an introduction to one of the New Penguin Freud volumes on The Uncanny, edited an anthology of Poetry of the Second World War and completed a book-length study of the contemporary Irish poet Derek Mahon. I am also interested in autobiography and life-writing: John Clare and Romantic poetry; US poetry and fiction; and issues around poetry, cultural exchange and translation.
I am currently completing Irish Crossings, a collection of critical essays on Irish literature and cultural translation, beginning a study of modern poets and their letters, and co-editing (with Valerie Eliot) The Letters of T.S. Eliot.
