Daniel Karlin
Daniel Karlin is a British literary scholar. He was educated at St Paul's School, London and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied for his BA and PhD. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and held appointments at University College London, Boston University, University of Sheffield, and University of Bristol, where he was Winterstoke Professor of English Literature. He retired in 2020 and was appointed Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Bristol. In the same year he was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy. His research interests include Romantic and Victorian poetry; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Henry James; Rudyard Kipling; Marcel Proust; and Bob Dylan.
Books
The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettRudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: The Courtship Correspondence 1845-1846
Robert Browning: Selected Poems
, The Poems of Browning, vol. 1: 1826-1840
, The Poems of Browning, vol. 2: 1841-1846
Rider Haggard, She
Browning’s Hatreds
Penguin Book of Victorian Verse
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poetry and Prose
Proust’s English
, The Poems of Browning, vol. 3: 1847-1861
Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
, The Poems of Browning, vol. 4: 1862-1871,
The Figure of the Singer
Street Songs: Writers and Urban Songs and Cries, 1800-1925
Henry James, The Bostonians
, The Poems of Browning, vols. 5 and 6: The Ring and the Book,
Selected journal articles, essays and chapters in books
'Whitman: The Civil War Poems'. Proceedings of the British Academy 73, pp. 259–284'Plain Tales?' Kipling Considered, ed. P. Mallett, pp. 1–18.
'"Beatrice Signorini": Browning's Last Portrait'. Browning e Venezia, ed. S. Perosa, pp. 325–337.
'Did He Eat Ortolans? Browning, Food, and Italy'. Robert Browning in Contexts, ed. J. Woolford, pp. 148 – 160.
'Having the Whip-Hand in Middlemarch'. Rereading Victorian Fiction, ed. A. Jenkins and J. John.
'Bob Dylan's Names'. Do You Mr Jones? Bob Dylan among the Poets and Professors, ed. N. Corcoran, pp. 27–49.
'"The Names": Robert Browning's "Shaksperean Show"'. Victorian Shakespeare, ed. A. Poole and G. Marshall, pp. 150–169.
'The Case of the Capable Fingers: a Della Street Mystery'. Literary Secretaries and Secretarial Culture, ed. P. Thurschwell and L. Price, pp. 111–128.
'From Dark Defile to Gethsemane: Rudyard Kipling's War Poetry'. Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century British and Irish War Poetry, ed. T. Kendall, pp. 51–72.
'"I have strange power of speech": Narrative Compulsion after Coleridge'.
Coleridge’s Afterlives, ed. J. Vigus and J. Wright, pp. 128–148.
'Tennyson, Browning, Virgil'. Tennyson Among the Poets, ed. R. Douglas-Fairhurst, and S. Perry, pp. 95–114.
'"The song-bird whose name is Legion": Bad Verse and its Critics'. Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry, ed. M. Bevis, pp. 834–852.
'"Our precious quand même": le français dans les lettres de Henry James.
Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 78
Actions and Reactions: Kipling's Edwardian Summer'. In Time's Eye: Essays on Rudyard Kipling, ed. J. Montefiore, pp. 111–128.
'Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg: at Kerouac's grave, and beyond'.
Popular Music History 8.2, pp. 155–68.
'Editing Poems in Letters'. Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop, ed. J. Ellis, pp. 31–46.
'"The Owl and the Pussy-cat" and other poems of love and marriage'. Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry, ed. M. Bevis and J. Williams, pp. 202–222.
'"In Vishnu-land what avatar?" Robert Browning and the Empire of Song'. Literary Location and Dislocation of Myth in the Post/Colonial Anglophone World, ed. A. Dodeman and É. Raimbault, pp. 179–194.
'Traduire les cris de Paris dans La Prisonnière. Son et traduction dans l'oeuvre de Proust, ed. E. Eells and N. Toth pp. 105–121. .
'Language and understanding in Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant a Dog'.
Kipling Journal 92.374, pp. 8–19.