Angela Leighton Explained

Angela Leighton, FBA (born 23 February 1954) is a British literary scholar and poet, who specialises in Victorian and twentieth-century English literature. Since 2006, she has been a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Previously, from 1979 to 2006, she taught at the University of Hull, rising to be Professor of English.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Early life and education

Leighton was born on 23 February 1954 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, to the composer Kenneth Leighton and Lydia Leighton (née Vignapiano). She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976 and a Master of Letters (MLitt) degree in 1981.

Academic career

In 1979, Leighton joined the English Department of the University of Hull. She was a lecturer from 1979 to 1993, a senior lecturer from 1993 to 1995, Reader in English from 1995 to 1997, and Professor of English from 1997 to 2006. In 2006, she moved to the University of Cambridge where she is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[4]

Honours

In 2000, Leighton was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[5] She delivered the 2002 Warton Lecture on English Poetry.^[6]

Selected works

Scholarly works

• Book: Leighton . Angela . Shelley and the Sublime: An Interpretation of the Major Poems . registration . 1984 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 978-0521250894.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Elizabeth Barrett Browning . 1986 . Harvester Press . Sussex . 978-0710805720.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart . 1992 . University Press of Virginia . Charlottesville . 978-0813914268.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Reynolds . Margaret . Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology . registration . 1995 . Blackwell . Oxford . 978-0631176084.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word . 2007 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0199290604.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson . 2010 . Liverpool University Press . Liverpool . 978-1846314841.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Trinity Poets (edited with Adrian Poole) . 2017 . Carcanet.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature . 2018 . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals (edited with Kajita and Nickerson) . 2022 . Liverpool University Press.

Poems

• Book: Leighton . Angela . A Cold Spell . 2000 . Shoestring Press . Nottingham . 978-1899549405.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Sea Level . 2007 . Shoestring Press . Beeston, Nottingham . 978-1904886648.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . The Messages . 2012 . Shoestring Press . Beeston, Nottingham . 978-1907356308.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . Spills . 2016 . Carcanet Press . Manchester . 978-1847772251.
• Book: Leighton . Angela . One, Two . 2021 . Carcanet Press . Manchester.

Notes and References

1. Web site: LEIGHTON, Prof. Angela. Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. 15 February 2017. November 2016.
2. Web site: Prof Angela Leighton, Trinity. Faculty of English. University of Cambridge. 15 February 2017.
3. Web site: Angela Leighton. Tower Poetry. 15 February 2017.
4. Web site: The Fellowship, etc.. Trinity College. University of Cambridge. 16 February 2017.
5. Web site: Professor Angela Leighton. British Academy. 15 February 2017.
6. Leighton, Angela. Elegies of Form in Bishop, Plath, Stevenson. Proceedings of the British Academy. 2003. 121. 257–275. (See Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Stevenson.)