Prof Kelsey Thornton

Career: Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne: lectr 1965-75, sr lectr 1975-84, prof 1984-89, visiting prof 2001-; prof Sch of Eng Univ of Birmingham 1989-2000 (head of Sch 1989-96); chm John Clare Soc 1987-90; pres Friends of the Dymock Poets; FRSA

Books and Publications: incl: John Clare: The Midsummer Cushion (1978), John Clare: The Rural Muse (1982), The Decadent Dilemma (1983), Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poems (1973), All My Eyes See: The Visual World of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1975), Ivor Gurney Collected Letters (1991), Ivor Gurney: Best Poems and the Book of Five Makings (1995), Poetry of the 1890s (1997), Ivor Gurney: 80 Poems or So (1997), Ernest Dowson: Collected Shorter Fiction (2003), Ernest Dowson: Collected Poems (2003), Random Rhymes (2009), Self-Portrait of My Father and Other Poems (2011); ed jls: The Ivor Gurney Soc Jl (1995-), 28 vols in the series Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents (1993-96)