Colin Burrow

Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and the editor of the Penguin Metaphysical Poetry.

In the LRB Archive:

• Be Nice to Mice: Henryson · 8 October 2009

  • ‘The Testament of Cresseid’ and ‘Seven Fables’ by Robert Henryson, translated by Seamus Heaney

• How to Twist a Knife: Wolf Hall · 30 April 2009

  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

• She Doesn’t Protest: The Untranslatable Decameron · 12 March 2009

  • Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by J.G. Nichols

• Cumin-coated: Two Novels about Lost Bellinis · 14 August 2008

  • The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin
  • The Bellini Madonna by Elizabeth Lowry

• New Model Criticism: Writing Under Cromwell · 19 June 2008

  • Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham by Blair Worden

• The Audience Throws Vegetables: Salman Rushdie · 8 May 2008

  • The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

• A Hee-Haw to Apuleius: John Crowley's Impure Fantasy · 1 November 2007

  • The Solitudes by John Crowley
  • Endless Things by John Crowley

• Conflationism: ‘Hamlet’ as you like it · 21 June 2007

  • Hamlet edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
  • Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor
  • ‘Hamlet’ without Hamlet by Margreta de Grazia

• It’s a lie: M.J. Hyland’s Creepy Adolescents · 2 November 2006

  • Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland

• Recribrations: John Donne in Performance · 5 October 2006

  • Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs

• Not Quite Nasty: Anthony Burgess · 9 February 2006

  • The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell

• No Way Out: John McGahern · 20 October 2005

  • Memoir by John McGahern

• You and Your Bow and the Gods: murder mysteries · 22 September 2005

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

• Who wouldn’t buy it?: speculating about Shakespeare · 20 January 2005

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

• Halifax hots up: writing (and reading) charitably · 21 October 2004

  • Havoc, in Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett

• Time to Mount Spain: Prince Charles’s Spanish Adventure · 2 September 2004

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

• Imparadised: cultivation and desire in Renaissance gardens · 19 February 2004

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

• Frisks, Skips and Jumps: Montaigne’s Tower · 6 November 2003

  • Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher by Anne Hartle

• Tuesday Girl: Seraphick Love · 6 March 2003

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

• Grit in the Oyster-Shell: Pepys · 14 November 2002

  • Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin

• A Joke Too Far: My Favourite Elizabethan · 22 August 2002

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

• Chapmaniac: Chapman’s Homer · 27 June 2002

  • Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Iliad’ edited by Allardyce Nicoll
  • Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Odyssey’ edited by Allardyce Nicoll

• Waves of Wo: George Gascoigne · 5 July 2001

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

• I Don’t Know Whats on Torquato Tasso · 22 February 2001

  • Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, translated by Anthony Esolen

• Not for Horrid Profs: Kermode’s Shakespeare · 1 June 2000

  • Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode

• Imperiumsinefinism on Virgil · 2 March 2000

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

• Brattishness on Henry Howard · 11 November 1999

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

• A Pickwick among Poets, Exiled in the Fatherland of Pickled Fish on British Latin verse · 19 August 1999

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

• Then place my purboil’d Head upon a Stake on British and Irish poetry · 7 January 1999

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

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