ABSTRACT
Born and raised in the West Midlands town of Dudley, at the heart of what is still known as the Black Country, Vince Newey attended Dudley Grammar School before going up to New College, Oxford, to study English in 1962. It was at Liverpool that he completed his BLitt, 'A Critical Examination of the Poetry of William Cowper', and later his PhD, 'Studies in the Literature of Selfhood and Subjective Experience', based on work he had by then published. An effective administrator as well as a highly respected scholar, in 1989 Vince was appointed Professor of English at the University of Leicester, leading the Department as Head from 1991 to 2000, before taking early retirement in 2006. Vince's style of criticism is more than instructive and intellectually expansive, though it is always both of these: it is, in the best sense, creative, enlivening and revivifying.
