External links
- "Hugh Maxton", Current members — Aosdána.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20091004164439/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/hughmaxton.html
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Hugh Maxton | |
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| Born | William John McCormack 1947 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, Literary critic |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin; Ulster University |
| Thesis | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the fiction of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy in the nineteenth century (1974) |
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| Discipline | Literature |
| Sub-discipline | Irish literature |
| Institutions | Ulster University. University of Leeds,Goldsmiths,University of London |
Hugh Maxton (born 1947),alias W. J. McCormack,is an Irish poet and academic.
William (Bill) John McCormack was born near Aughrim,County Wicklow in 1947. His parents were Irene (née King) and Charles Elliott McCormack. His father died from a heart attack when William was 13 years old. [1] He attended Rathgar (Methodist) National School and won a scholarship to Wesley College,Dublin (1959-65). He proceeded to Trinity College Dublin from which he graduated with a BA (1971). He was awarded a D.Phil. by the New University of Ulster (1974). He lectured both at the Coleraine and Magee College campuses of that university before proceeding to the University of Leeds. He was awarded a personal chair in Literary History at Goldsmiths,University of London in 1995. [2]
As a poet,he adopted the name Hugh Maxton,supposedly from the Scottish socialist James Maxton. He has written a large number of books of poetry as well as translations from Hungarian and German. [3]
As a literary critic,he has written using his registered name William J. McCracken. His specialism is 19th- and 20th-century Irish literature. [4]
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