Coffey, Dr Bysshe Inigo

Teaching

Literature in English 1700–1830; 1830–1910; and 1900–present, dissertations falling within that time. Graduate students working on Romantic, Victorian, and 20th-century topics.

Research interests

– The poetry, thought, reception history, and editing of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

– Verse, prosody, criticism 1700–Present.

– Critical and theoretical fads, fashions, and discipleship.

– Textual scholarship and its history.

– Literature and Philosophy.

– 18th- and 19th-century Greek, Latin, and French translation.

Recent Publications

Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song. Liverpool University Press, 2021 (Paperback, 2023). Shortlisted for the University English Prize.

‘Marilyn Gaull’s Unwritten Book: Romantic Possibility and the Polymath’. The Wordsworth Circle 53.1, pp. 37-47. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/718229

‘Percy Bysshe Shelley and China’s Gayest Art’. Invited article for ‘Romanticism and Asia’, special issue, guest edited by Peter Kitson. The Wordsworth Circle 51.1, pp. 221–241. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/709153

‘Shelley’s Poetry of Air’. The Wordsworth Circle 50.2 (2019), pp. 219–236. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/703688

‘Wrecked in that Convulsion: Epipsychidion and Rhyme’. The Keats-Shelley Review 33.1, (2019), pp. 60–73. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524142.2019.1611269

‘Shelley’s Kant, Wordsworth, and “Peter Bell”’. The Wordsworth Circle 49.3 (2018), pp. 167–176. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/TWC4903167

‘Shelley’s Alastor and “On a Future State”. The Wordsworth Circle 48.1 (2017), pp. 39–46. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/TWC48010039