Duncan Wu

Duncan Wu is Raymond A. Wagner Professor in Literary Studies at Georgetown University. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on Romanticism and the world's leading authority on the life and work of William Hazlitt.

He is the author of twenty-two books about the Romantic period and Victorian poetry, including the widely used textbook Romanticism: An Anthology (Wiley); Hazlitt: The First Modern Man (Oxford University Press, 2008); The New Writings of William Hazlitt (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Wordsworth's Poets (Carcanet; 2003). He lives in McLean, Virginia.

His anthology Dog-eared - Poems About Humanity's Best Friend was published by Basic Books in the US in 2020.

His poetry collection, Origin Myths will be published by Shearsman Books in 2025.

The fifth edition of his seminal Romanticism will be published by Wiley in 2025.

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