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Then place my purboil’d Head upon a Stake

Colin Burrow

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

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Colin Burrow is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He edited The Complete Sonnets and Poems for the Oxford Shakespeare. You can hear him talking about Milton at http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/milton400/burrow.htm

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