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Burrow, Dr Colin
Job Title: Senior Research Fellow
College: All Souls
Period/ Subject: Early Modern
Email address: colin.burrow@ell.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Renaissance literature; Early Tudor literature; Shakespeare; Ben Jonson; Classical literatures and their influence; editing.
Teaching Areas:
As a Senior Research Fellow I lecture on topics in the period 1500-1700, and am happy to undertake graduate supervision on topics in Renaissance and comparative literature, in the history of classical reception, and in any other area in which I have an interest. I do not normally offer undergraduate supervision.
Recent Publications:
The Poems, for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (London: Penguin, 2006), 400 pp.
The Complete Sonnets and Poems The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). 750 pp.
Edmund Spenser Writers and their Work (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1996). 118 pp.
Epic Romance: Homer to Milton (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993). 336 pp.
Introduction to Troilus and Cressida for the Penguin Shakespeare (London: Penguin, 2006)
‘Why Shakespeare was not Michaelangelo', in Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. William Poole and Richard Scholar (Legenda, 2007)
‘The Appendix Vergiliana in the Renaissance' (The Proceedings of the Vergil Society, 2008)
‘Editing the Sonnets' for Michael Schoenfeldt, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)
‘Ben Jonson', for The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, ed. Claude Rawson (forthcoming, 2009)
‘Households', in Cultural Reformations, ed. James Simpson and Brian Cummings (forthcoming, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
'Spenser's Genres', for The Oxford Spenser Handbook, ed. Richard McCabe (forthcoming, 2009)
Work in progress
The Elizabethans, for The Oxford English Literary History. (A study of verse, poetry and prose from the period 1533-1603); Imitation (A study of the theory and practice of imitation from classical to modern times); Shakespeare and Antiquity, Oxford Shakespeare Topics.
Other Information:
I have published on a wide range of topics in the period 1500-1700, and review regularly on a many areas (including Renaissance literature and contemporary fiction) for The London Review of Books. I have edited the non-dramatic works of Ben Jonson and of Shakespeare, but my principal research interests lie in relations between English, European and Classical literatures in the period 1500-1700. My volume in the Oxford English Literary History will reappraise writing in the lifetime of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and covers drama as well as other genres. My study of Imitation will range widely across western literary and critical traditions, from Plato to the present day. I am involved in the Scriptorium project for digitizing early modern commonplace books, which grows out of my interests in editing and manuscript studies. I have supervised graduate students on a wide range of topics, from early Tudor poetry and religion, through studies in the reception of classical literature in the sixteenth century, through seventeenth-century poetry, to Milton and Dryden and beyond.
Homepage (with full list of publications)
Podcast lecture, Milton's Singularity
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