Essays

Literature

‘This, that, the other’: review of Barrell, The Infection of Thomas de Quincey – 1992

Poems that read themselves – 1991 

A reply to ‘Prelude and prejudice’ – 1982

The eye and progress of his song: a Lacanian reading of The Prelude – 1979 

The art of flight: recent small press poetry – 1977 

A short history of English at Wadham – 2003

‘For thou wert there’: history and its erasure in The Prelude – 1986
Modernism and the postmodern novel – 1992
Sirens without music: the language of flow – 1986
Une tradition en crise (Grand-Bretagne) – 1988