Peter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University, UK. His has published on twentieth and twenty-first-century literature (especially modern and contemporary poetry) and literary theory. His research interests are also Romanticism and the short story and the theory and practice of teaching English literature and literary theory. Some of his previous publications are Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, 2002, Contemporary British Poetry and the City (2002), English in Practice (2003) and Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls C...