Michael Craske‘Music that shone from the word’: A study of Swinburne’s Musicality, Wagner’s influence on its development, and its effect on T. S. Eliot’s version of ModernismEmail: m.j.craske@qmul.ac.ukWebsite: http://www.verseandmusic.comProfileTeachingProfileI have spent a large amount of my working life both in the Middle East and writing about it as an editor and a public relations consultant in the business and diplomatic worlds. Having done that for far too many years, I returned to university to do my PhD on the relationship between the erotic poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne and the music of Richard Wagner. I’ve since written on this area for the Journal of Victorian Culture, Notes & Queries, Volupté, the Rimbaud & Verlaine Foundation, and Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism. A chapter on Wagner and Decadent poetry is forthcoming from Greenwich Exchange, and I’m currently writing a chapter on Swinburne and scandal for Routledge. Through the Decadence Research Centre at Goldsmiths, I also study Victorian gay slang. I blog at www.verseandmusic.com about late-Victorian song settings of Swinburne’s poetry. Teaching ESH101 Shakespeare ESH279 Victorian Fictions Research
