Richard bradford author biography sample

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Professor Richard Bradford. Coleraine campus. Arts and Humanities Research. His biographies of post-war British writers have received enthusiastic reviews in broadsheets and weeklies, with D. Taylor in The Independent commenting on his 'Lucky Him. The Life of Kingsley Amis' that 'no-one has done such a detailed job of analysis No-one, either, has so relentlessly exposed the central struggles of Amis's life'.

The Life of Philip Larkin' that 'Bradford is in such complete command of the subject matter that nothing escapes him. It is as if he has had access to Larkin's very thought processes. A great biography of a great artistic genius. Utterly magnificent'. He writes occasionally for The Spectator and has been commissioned as authorised biographer of Alan Sillitoe.

Since his arrival at Ulster University he has published 15 books on various aspects of literature and culture from the Renaissance to the present day, including A Linguistic History of English Poetry Routledge, ; Roman Jakobson. Skip to navigation Skip to content. Go to main site for Ulster University.