About Neil Roberts
Born 1946. Neil Roberts is a scholar of English.
Neil Roberts (born 1946, Manchester) is an emeritus Professor of English literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of critical studies of Ted Hughes, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot and George Meredith, including the first critical study of Peter Redgrove.
Roberts's book A Lucid Dreamer was shortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award.
Life Neil Roberts was born in Manchester in 1946 and educated in Latymer Upper School, London, and Clare College, Cambridge.
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Emeritus Professor of English literature
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Neil Roberts was born in 1946 in Manchester.
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