Dr Tom Mason
Senior Lecturer
Room: 2.13
Tel: 0117 928 8629
Fax: 0117 331 7933
Email: Tom.Mason@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests
- English Poetry and the Criticism of Poetry 1650-1790, particularly Cowley, Milton, Dryden, Pope and Johnson
- Classical/English literary relations; theory and practice of translation; comic poetry
- Chaucer’s poetic reception, Wyatt to Warton
- Shakespeare editing, playtexts and criticism 1623-1778
- Computer concordancing in the study of the genealogy of the poetic lexicon
Research Supervision
- Rob King, ‘Poetic Imitation in the Ricardian, Stuart and Hanoverian Periods’;
- Alex Brown: ‘Pope’s Shakespeare’;
- Sarah Annes Brown: ‘Ovid from Chaucer to Ted Hughes’;
- Adam Rounce: ‘Savage and Churchill’;
- Amanda Kolston: ‘Catullus from Ben Jonson to Ezra Pound’;
- Lene Peterson: ‘Shakespeare’s Bad Quarto’s’;
- Marcus Dahl: ‘Did Shakespeare write 1 Henry VI?’
Selected Publications
Articles on Anacreon, Chaucer, Cowley, Dryden, Johnson, Jonson, Lucretius, and Montaigne.
Teaching
- Approaches to Poetry;
- Approaches to Shakespeare;
- Literature 2 1540-1700 ;
- Paradise Lost: Receptions and Consequences;
- Literature 3 1700-1830;
- Comedy and the Literary Arts;
- Samuel Johnson: A Literary Life;
- Poetry and Criticism from Sidney to Arnold;
- MA Shakespeare: Eighteenth-Century Critics and editors;
- MA Poetry: Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes’s criticism of poetry