Emeritus Professor wins prestigious award
A Distinguished Scholar Award for 2025 has been conferred by the Keats-Shelley Association of America on Professor Kelvin Everest, Emeritus A. C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature in the Department of English, and formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University (2001-2016), for ‘career-long excellence in scholarship’. Professor Everest is the author of Keats & Shelley: Winds of Light (Oxford University Press, 2021), John Keats (Writers and their Work) (Liverpool University Press, 2002), English Romantic Poetry (Open University, 1990) and Coleridge’s Secret Ministry: Context of the Conversation Poems (Harvester, 1979), along with many other essays. He is the celebrated editor of Shelley’s Selected Poems (Longman, 2023) and one of the general editors of the landmark six-volume Longman The Poems of Shelley, which was completed in 2024.
In January the Encomium for Professor Everest’s award will be given at a dinner in New Orleans by Professor Sharon Ruston of Lancaster University, herself a graduate (BA, MA, and PhD) of the Liverpool English Department.