Hobsbaum, Professor Philip (b. 1932-: poet, editor, literary scholar and Professor of English Literature)

Professor Philip Hobsbaum, was born in 1932 . In the 1960s he taught for four years at the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, before becoming lecturer and reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow Scotland, from 1966 to 1985. Between 1985 and 1997 he held a Personal Chair in English Literature at the same university. In 2003, he held the post of Professorial Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of English Literature. His main research interests lie in literary theory; prosody; modern British, Irish and American poetry; creative writing; Dickens; and Wordsworth, Coleridge and Romanticism. His Ph.D. thesis was published as A Theory of Communication in 1970 (in USA, Theory of Criticism). A book in the same area, Essentials of Literary Criticism, was published in 1983. He founded creative writing groups in London (1955), Belfast (1963) and Glasgow (1966), and, with Edward Lucie-Smith, published A Group Anthology (1963). Source: University of Glasgow Department of English Literature webpages