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Name
  
Hugh Maxton


Role
  
Poet

Books
  
Poems 2000 ‑ 2005, At the Protestant Museum, Dissolute Characters: Irish Liter, Blood Kindred: WB Yeat, Roger Casement in Death

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Hugh Maxton (born 1947), alias W. J. McCormack, is an Irish poet and academic. As a lecturer at the University of Leeds in Yorkshire, he focused on 19th- and 20th-century Irish literature. In addition to co-translating poetry from Hungarian and German, he has produced several volumes of poetry of his own, the most recent being Same Bridge Perhaps (Duras Press, 2013).

References

Hugh Maxton Wikipedia