Nicholas Hugh Roe,
FBA,
FRSE
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(born 14 December 1955) is a scholar of English literature and an academic, specialising in
romantic literature and culture. Since 1996, he has been Professor of English Literature at the
University of St Andrews
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. After completing his undergraduate degrees and
doctorate
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at
Trinity College, Oxford
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, Roe joined St Andrews as a lecturer in English in 1985; he was promoted to reader in 1993.
Honours
In 2009, Roe was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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(FRSE).Fellow of the British Academy
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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy
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for the humanities and social sciences.
Selected works
* (editor with Richard Gravil and Lucy Newlyn) ''Coleridge's Imagination'' (Cambridge University Press, 1985).
* (editor) ''William Wordsworth: Selected Poetry'' (Penguin, 1992).
* ''The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries'' (Macmillan, 1992).
* ''Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years'' (Oxford University Press, 1988).
* ''Keats and History'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
* ''John Keats and the Culture of Dissent'' (Oxford University Press, 1997).
* (editor) ''Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life'' (Oxford University Press, 2001).
* (editor) ''Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics'' (Routledge, 2003).
* ''Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt'' (Pimlico, 2005).
* (editor) ''Romanticism: An Oxford Guide'' (Oxford University Press, 2005).
* (editor) ''English Romantic Writers and the West Country'' (Palgrave, 2010).
* ''John Keats. A New Life'' (Yale University Press, 2012).
References
External links
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1955 births
Living people
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Academics of the University of St Andrews
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the British Academy