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“Whate’er These Words Cannot Express”: In Memory of Michael O’Neill

Published posthumously in April 2019, the sheer range, elegance, and command of Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence testify to Michael O’Neill’s eminence as a scholar of Romanticism, as well as to his acute sensitivity to the subtleties of poetic meter, form, and meaning. Until his death on December 21, 2018, Michael O’Neill was Professor of English at DurhamUniversity, where he taught for nearly forty years. During that time he served for two terms as Head of Department and as Acting Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham. Over his life-long career at Durham, Michael’s prolific publications as a scholar and editor of Romanticism established him as a world-leading authority in the field. He published widely in numerous books, articles, and chapters on Romantic poetry, especially the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and on a vast range of eighteenth-, Victorian, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century poets. Although Michael will be remembered first and foremost for his scholarship on the poetry of Shelley (including Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Literary Life [Macmillan, 1989]), his knowledge of, and commitment to, poetry was extraordinary, ranging from Dante to the contemporary. Fittingly, the dust jacket of Michael’s majestic study of Shelley and “new relations” reproduces John Flaxman’s TheMeeting with Statius that, depicting the convergence of three poets, Virgil, Statius, and Dante from the Purgatorio, speaks toMichael’s concern throughout his distinguished career with questions of poetic self-consciousness, literary achievement, dialogue, and influence. Poetic form (rhyme, meter, verse, allusion) was, for Michael, the means by which poetry was self-consciously, even