Archie Burnett

Archie Burnett is Director of the Editorial Institute and Professor of English at Boston University. He took a first in English at Edinburgh University before doing a DPhil at Oxford on Milton's language. From 1974 to 1978 he was Junior Research Fellow in English at St John's College, Oxford, and subsequently Lecturer and eventually Professor at Oxford Brookes University. His major publications are Milton's Style: The Shorter Poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes (1981), the Oxford...See more

Archie Burnett is Director of the Editorial Institute and Professor of English at Boston University. He took a first in English at Edinburgh University before doing a DPhil at Oxford on Milton's language. From 1974 to 1978 he was Junior Research Fellow in English at St John's College, Oxford, and subsequently Lecturer and eventually Professor at Oxford Brookes University. His major publications are Milton's Style: The Shorter Poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes (1981), the Oxford editions of The Poems of A. E. Housman (1997) and The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007), and Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems (Faber, 2012). His editorial work has drawn the highest praise. He is currently preparing a multi- volume edition of the collected prose of T. S. Eliot for Faber. See less