Archie Burnett

Archie Burnett is known for his Oxford English Texts edition of The Poems of A.E. Housman (1997) and for a two-volume edition, also from Oxford, of The Letters of A. E. Housman(2007). Currently, he is finishing work on a scholarly edition, with apparatus and commentary, of The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin for Faber & Faber. His interest in Milton, originally marked by Milton’s Style: The Shorter Poems, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes (1981), is sustained in his writing the introduction to Samson Agonistes for A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton (Duquesne University Press). He is a Professor of English, and he teaches in the Core Curriculum.