Nicholas Hugh Roe, FBA, FRSE (born 14 December 1955) is a scholar of English literature and an academic, specialising in Romantic literature and culture. Since 1996, he has been Professor of English Literature at the

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. After completing his undergraduate degrees and

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, Roe joined St Andrews as a lecturer in English in 1985; he was promoted to reader in 1993."Roe, Prof. Nicholas Hugh"
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Honours

In 2009, Roe was elected

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(FRSE). In July 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences."Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research"
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Selected works

* (editor with Richard Gravil and Lucy Newlyn) ''Coleridge's Imagination'' (Cambridge University Press, 1985). * (editor) ''William Wordsworth: Selected Poetry'' (Penguin, 1992). * ''The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries'' (Macmillan, 1992). * ''Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years'' (Oxford University Press, 1988). * ''Keats and History'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995). * ''John Keats and the Culture of Dissent'' (Oxford University Press, 1997). * (editor) ''Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life'' (Oxford University Press, 2001). * (editor) ''Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics'' (Routledge, 2003). * ''Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt'' (Pimlico, 2005). * (editor) ''Romanticism: An Oxford Guide'' (Oxford University Press, 2005). * (editor) ''English Romantic Writers and the West Country'' (Palgrave, 2010). * ''John Keats. A New Life'' (Yale University Press, 2012).

References

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