Masks and narratives : the problem of mask lyrics

István Rácz

István D. Rácz is a Reader in the Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen. His main field of interest is 19th- and 20th-century British poetry. He has published books and studies on romantic poetry (Blake and Shelley), translation studies and contemporary British poetry, including a monograph on Philip Larkin. He has co-edited a volume on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Currently he is working on a new monograph on Larkin’s poetics. He is director of the Institute of English and American Studies, chairman of the Literary Scholarship Council of the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy and editor of Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Email: racz.istvan@arts.unideb.hu