Wylie, Alex

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Name:

Wylie, Alex

Email:

a.wylie@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy

Organisation:

York

Address:

Room QE0M04 York St John University Lord Mayors Walk York YO31 7EX

Country:

United Kingdom

Biography

Job title:

Senior Lecturer

Biography:

I am a poet and literary critic. My critical publications have so far been mainly on modern and contemporary poetry. I am the author of 'Geoffrey Hill's later work: Radiance of apprehension' (MUP 2019), 'Secular Games' (Eyewear 2018) and 'Krishna's Anarchy' (2023), along with various articles and chapters.

Qualifications:

PhD (Queen's University Belfast) Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

My Latest

Wylie, Alex (2025) Saying the Unsayable: Contemporary Poetry and the Structure of Feeling. In: Raymond Williams and Structures of Feeling. University of Wales Press (In Press)
Wylie, Alex (2025) 'Not by an act of God': Capital in the Work of Basil Bunting. The Cambridge Quarterly, 54 (2). pp. 135-148.
Wylie, Alex (2023) Krishna’s Anarchy. London, Black Spring Press Group/Eyewear
Wylie, Alex (2023) 'Here Lies a Civil Servant': C.H. Sisson and the Possibility of Honesty. In: Moul, V. and Talbot, J., (eds.) C.H. Sisson Reconsidered. The New Antiquity . Palgrave MacMillan
Wylie, Alex (2022) A Proxy for Submission: On Taste and Tastefulness in Contemporary Poetry. PN Review (267).
Wylie, Alex (2021) The Bureaucratic Sublime: On the Secret Joys of Contemporary Poetry. PN Review, 48 (2).
Wylie, Alex (2020) Democratic Rags: On the 'democratic' in contemporary poetry. PN Review, 46 (3).
Wylie, Alex (2014) Sisson's Troy. PN Review, 40 (5).
Wylie, Alex (2009) Prophet and Citizen: Fifty Years of Geoffrey Hill's For the Unfallen. PN Review, 36 (2).
Wylie, Alex (2014) “Things that other people have desired”: The Contexts of TS Eliot’s Portrait of A Lady. Journal of the TS Eliot Society (UK).

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Eros in Geoffrey Hill's Scenes from Comus	210	1
2	Geoffrey Hill's Later Work: Radiance of Apprehension	180	1
3	Prophet and Citizen: Fifty Years of Geoffrey Hill's For the Unfallen	178
4	“'This: “Ad Socium”?': Verbal Power in Geoffrey Hill's The Triumph of Love.”	176	1
5	Bunting and the Vile Patterns of Expediency	160	1
6	'It is not anyone's dream': C.H. Sisson's Utopias	155	1
7	Ivor Gurney's Imperfection	154	1
8	“Things that other people have desired”: The Contexts of TS Eliot’s Portrait of A Lady	154	1
9	Sisson's Troy	153	1
10	Secular games	139