Professor Robert Crawford FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2011
- Subjects
- Literature
Summary
Robert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published seven full collections of poetry and many prose books. At present he is working on the second volume of a biography of T. S. Eliot. He has held posts at the universities of Oxford, Glasgow, and St Andrews where he is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry in the School of English. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was President of the Classical Association in 2015-16 and is Honorary President of the Classical Association of Scotland.
Current post
Publications
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