Byron, the Italian Literary Influence

by Peter Vassallo

Hardcover

First published December 31, 1984

About the author

Professor Peter Vassallo is Professor of English Literature. He was Head of Department from 1998 to 2006. He read English (Honours) at the University of Malta where he was awarded the British Council Prize for English Studies. He continued his studies as a Commonwealth scholar and fellow at the University of Oxford where he obtained the degrees of MA and D.Phil. Professor Vassallo has recently been elected Fellow of the English Association.

His publications include Byron: The Italian Literary Influence and Byron and the Mediteranean which he edited. He is a member of the board of Directors of the International Byron Society and sits on the advisory editorial board of La Questione Romantica (Bologna) and Romanticism: A Journal (Edinburgh).

Professor Vassallo is founding editor of the Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies (11 vols.) and is currently Chair of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies which promotes advanced research in this interdisciplinary field of study.

He has published articles on the major Romantic poets and has written a Section on ‘Romantic Narrative Verse’ in Romanticism: An Oxford Guide edited by Nicholas Roe (Oxford University Press).

He has been visiting professor at some of the leading British and Italian Universities and has been invited as a keynote speaker at major conferences. He is currently president of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE).

He has recently completed a study of Yeats’s poetry for the forthcoming The New Cambridge History of English Poetry edited by Michael O’Neill (Cambridge University Press).

Reviews

[Rachelle]

I am proud to say that this supremely intelligent man is MY Professor.