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Colin Burrow

Colin Burrow, a senior research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare and introduced Troilus and Cressida for Penguin.

Selected bibliography

  • Metaphysical Poetry edited by Colin Burrow, introduction by Christopher Ricks (2006)
  • The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare, edited by Colin Burrow (2002)
  • Edmund Spenser (1996)
  • Epic Romance: Homer to Milton (1993)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content The Audience Throws Vegetables · 8 May 2008

subscriber-only content A Hee-Haw to Apuleius · 1 November 2007

subscriber-only content Conflationism · 21 June 2007

subscriber-only content It’s a lie · 2 November 2006

Recribrations · 5 October 2006

Not Quite Nasty · 9 February 2006

subscriber-only content No Way Out · 20 October 2005

  • Memoir by John McGahern

subscriber-only content You and Your Bow and the Gods · 22 September 2005

  • A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of Thought by Stephen Kern  Buy this book

Who wouldn’t buy it? · 20 January 2005

subscriber-only content Halifax hots up · 21 October 2004

subscriber-only content Time to Mount Spain · 2 September 2004

  • The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match by Glyn Redworth  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Imparadised · 19 February 2004

  • Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens by Rebecca Bushnell

subscriber-only content Frisks, Skips and Jumps · 6 November 2003

  • Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher by Anne Hartle

Tuesday Girl · 6 March 2003

  • Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin by Frances Harris

subscriber-only content Grit in the Oyster-Shell · 14 November 2002

  • Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

subscriber-only content A Joke Too Far · 22 August 2002

  • Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift by Jason Scott-Warren

subscriber-only content Chapmaniac · 27 June 2002

  • Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Iliad’ edited by Allardyce Nicoll  Buy this book
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Waves of Wo · 5 July 2001

  • A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres by George Gascoigne, edited by G.W. Pigman

subscriber-only content I Don’t Know Whats · 22 February 2001

  • Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, translated by Anthony Esolen

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Not for Horrid Profs · 1 June 2000

 not available in archive Imperiumsinefinism · 2 March 2000

  • Virgil’s Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names and Places by Richard Jenkyns

 not available in archive Brattishness · 11 November 1999

  • Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life by W.A. Sessions

 not available in archive A Pickwick among Poets, Exiled in the Fatherland of Pickled Fish · 19 August 1999

  • The English Horace: Anthony Alsop and the Traditions of British Latin Verse by D.K. Money

 not available in archive Then place my purboil’d Head upon a Stake · 7 January 1999

  • Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660 edited by Peter Davidson

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