Professor Philip Smallwood
Current positions
Senior Teaching Associate
Department of EnglishHUMS Short Course Tutor
Department of English
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Research interests
My research interests include the poetry and criticism of John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, aesthetics, the history of literary criticism (of all periods) and the philosophy of R.G. Collingwood. I am presently editing a collection of essays entitled New Directions in Johnson Studies for Routledge.
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2024Johnson and Stendhal
Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment
Fairy Tales, Madness and Total War
Human Affairs
Beatus Ille: Pope and the Mythos of Retirement
Pope's Mythologies
Cowley's Singularity
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Johnson and the Essay
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson