Michael O'Neill Papers

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Introduction

	Biography
	Contents
	Arrangement
	Bibliography

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Catalogue

• Lectures
• Lecture notes
• Notebooks
• Related academic papers
• Media
• Research and Publications
• Research and publishing notes
• Notebooks (dated)
• Notebooks (undated)
• Thesis, Articles and Publications
• Cassette tape
• Research-related papers
• Departmental administration
• Collated administrative papers
• Notebooks
• Administrative papers
• CD
• Poetry
• Collated poems and papers
• Notebooks (dated)
• Notebooks (undated)
• Poems
• Publications
• Poetry-related papers
• Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and other institutions
• Collated institutional papers
• Notebooks
• IAS and other institution-related papers
• IAS Mousemat

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Biography

Michael O'Neill joined the University of Durham in 1979 as a lecturer in its English Studies department. He was head of the department from 1997 to 2000 and from 2002 to 2005. He was a central figure in the establishment of the Institute of Advanced Study at the university, being its director (Arts and Humanities) from 2005 to 2011 and serving as the acting executive director from January 2011 until May 2012. O'Neill was a leading scholar of Romantic poetry and a renowned scholar of poetic influence, dialogues, and legacies, particularly with regard to his critical studies and textual editing of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. He published on English poetry dating from the late 18th century to the early 21st century, with significant contributions, also, on Dante and Shakespeare.
O'Neill was also a prize-winning poet, publishing four collections of poems during his lifetime with a fifth collection published posthumously in 2019.

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Contents

Papers of Michael O'Neill (1953-2018), professor of English Studies at Durham University, scholar of Romantic poetry, and a poet himself. The collection documents his teaching, research and publishing, and his departmental administrative activities, and also his poetry and readings. Also present are circulars etc. of the Wordsworth Trust, publications and papers of the Institute of Advanced Studies, correspondence from colleagues and students, and a few photographs (most from his time at Durham 1979-2018).

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Accession details

Donated by Rosemary O'Neill (accession nos Misc.2019/20:5 and 95).

Conditions of access

There is restricted access to administrative records less than 30 years old, with some further restrictions, generally as noted, on records less than 80 years old where General Data Protection regulations apply

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material

Arrangement

Some arrangement of the papers has been imposed by the cataloguer. Papers that were originally kept in the same folder remain grouped together to retain a sense of their original order where possible; loose papers have been grouped together, for example, items of correspondence, or typescript poems (arranged alphabetically by title). Publications have only been retained when content relating to O'Neill is found published within them. Photocopies and more ephemeral material have been kept when they evidence O'Neill's teaching or literary interests. The collection is arranged as follows:
A - Lectures
B - Research and Publications
C - Departmental Administration
D - Poetry
E - Institutions

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Processing

Initially sorted by Dr Michael Stansfield and Prof. Fiona Robertson, March 2020; further sorting and listing by Beth Hall, October 2021.

Appraisal

Appraised and sorted by Dr Michael Stansfield and Prof. Fiona Robertson.

Accruals

None expected.

Bibliography

Poetry
The Stripped Bed (London: Collins Harvill 1990)
Wheel (ARC Publications 2008)
Gangs of Shadow (ARC Publications 2014)
Return of the Gift (ARC Publications 2018)
Crash and Burn (ARC Publications 2019)

Academic The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and Achievement in Shelley's Poetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Literary Life (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1989)
with Gareth Reeves, Auden, MacNeice, Spender: The Thirties Poetry, (Basingstoke: MacMillan 1989)
Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997)
The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007)
with S. Hebron and D. Bindman, Dante Rediscovered: From Blake to Rodin,(Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust 2007)
with Michael D. Hurley, Poetic form: an introduction (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2012)
with Madeleine Callaghan, The Romantic poetry handbook (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell 2018)
Shelleyan reimaginings and influence: new relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019)

Edited anthologies The 'Defence of Poetry' Fair Copies (New York: Garland 1994)
with D.H. Reiman, Fair-Copy Manuscripts of Shelley's Poems in European and American Libraries, (New York: Garland 1997)
ed with Zachary Leader, Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, Including Poetry, Prose, and Drama (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003)
A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (London: Routledge 2004)
ed with Charles Mahoney, Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell 2007)
The Cambridge history of English poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010)
ed with Madeleine Callaghan,Twentieth century British and Irish poetry: Hardy to Mahon (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell 2011)
ed with Anthony Howe, The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013)

Edited collections Keats: Bicentenary Readings (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1997)
Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998)
ed with Mark Sandy, Romanticism: Critical Concepts in Cultural and Literary Studies (London: Taylor & Francis 2006)
ed with Ash Amin, Thinking about almost everything: new ideas to light up minds, (London: Profile 2009)
ed with Mark Sandy and Sarah Wootton, Venice and the cultural imagination: 'this strange dream upon the water' (London: Pickering & Chatto 2012)
ed with Mark Sandy and Sarah Wootton, The persistence of beauty: Victorians to moderns (London: Pickering & Chatto 2015)
John Keats in context (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press 2017)

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Catalogue

Lectures
MSO A   [1970s-2010s]
5 boxes   Paper files; compact discs and audio cassette tapes

Lecture notes; notebooks; miscellaneous academic papers; audio recordings

Research and Publications
MSO B   1970s-2010s5 boxes

Research and publishing notes; notebooks; thesis, articles and publications; cassette tape; research-related papers.

Departmental administration
MSO C   1970s-2010s3 boxes

Collated administrative papers; notebooks; administrative papers; CD.
The university's archive of the records of the English / English Studies Department is catalogued here: UND/DB6.
There is restricted access to university administrative records less than 30 years old, with some further restrictions, generally as noted, on records less than 80 years old where General Data Protection regulations apply.

Poetry
MSO D   1970s-2010s5 boxes

Collated poems and papers; notebooks; poems; publications; poetry-related papers

Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and other institutions
MSO E   [1970s-2010s]2 boxes

Collated instutitional papers; notebooks; IAS and other institional related papers; IAS mousemat.
There is restricted access to university administrative records less than 30 years old, with some further restrictions, generally as noted, on records less than 80 years old where General Data Protection regulations apply.