IABS-Peter Cochran Award for Lifetime Achievement

The Joint Presidents created the ‘IABS-Peter Cochran Award for Lifetime Achievement’ to be given to a scholar who has demonstrated a lifetime of passion and groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Byron studies. Nominations and voting appear at each IABS conference, during the General Meeting.

International Association of Byron Societies

Bernard Beatty was the delighted winner in 2018

Reading Byron, Liverpool University Press

Poems – Life – Politics | Beatty, Bernard | Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 92 November 1st, 2022

• Literary studies: poetry and poets

• 1714–1837 (Georgian period)

• Romantic literature

• poetry

• philosophy

• history of ideas

• literary history