Books by W. J. McCormack

W.J. Mc Cormack is Professor of Literary History in the University of London and head of the English Department, Goldsmiths' College. He has published a biography of Sheridan Le Fanu (1980) and a radical interrogation of the Protestant Ascendancy (From Burke to Beckett, 1994). He is currently completing a biography of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge (Weidenfeld and Nicolson). W.J. McCormack also writes poetry under the name of Hugh Maxton. His first book of verse, The Noise of the Fields, was a Poetry Book Society Choice in 1976. The Engraved Passion: New and Selected Poems appeared in 1991.