Articles by Colin Burrow

Articles

Most of my articles have been on relationships between English and classical literatures, though I have also written several general pieces on early modern literature, and on wider literary or critical issues.


  • 'Original Fictions: Metamorphoses in The Faerie Queene' in Charles Martindale ed., Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Art and Literature from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 1988), pp.99-119
  • 'Heroes, Heroism and Shakespeare' English Review Vol 1 No. 3, 29-33.
  • 'A Probable Source for Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis: Text and Translation of John Clapham's Narcissus', ELR 22 (1992), 147-176. With Charles Martindale.
  • 'Horace at Home and Abroad: Wyatt and Sixteenth Century Horatianism', in Charles Martindale and David Hopkins ed., Horace Made New: Horatian Influences on British Writing from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 1993), pp.27-49
  • 'Epic', The English Review Vol. 4 No. 4, 15-18
  • 'Virgil in English Translation', in Charles Martindale, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge, 1997), pp.21-37
  • 'Virgils from Dante to Milton', in Charles Martindale, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 79-90
  • 'J. A. Burrow: A Bibliography', in A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse and Thorlac Turville-Petre eds., Essays on Ricardian Literatures In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford, 1997), pp. 345-50
  • Henry Howard Earl of Surrey: A Short Life (Privately printed pamphlet for the Framlingham Parish Church)
  • 'Life and Work in Shakespeare's Poems', The British Academy Chatterton Lecture 1997, Proceedings of the British Academy 97 (1997), 15-50
  • 'The Experience of Exclusion: Literature and Politics in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII', The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 793-820
  • 'Poems 1645: The Future Poet', The Cambridge Companion to Milton 2nd edition, ed. Dennis Danielson (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 54-69
  • '"Full of the Maker's Guile": Ovid on Imitating and on the Imitation of Ovid', in Ovidian Transformations: Essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its Reception, ed. Philip Hardie, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplement 23 (1999), 271-87
  • 'Combative Classicism: Classical Literary Criticism in Renaissance England', in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, ed. Glynn P. Norton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 487-99
  • 'Horace' for Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed Paul F. Grendler (New York, 1999)
  • 'The Sixteenth Century: An Introduction', in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1500-1600, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 11-28
  • 'Shakespeare's Wrinkled Eye: Sonnet 3 lines 11-12', Notes and Queries 245 (2000), 90-91
  • '"That Arch-Poet of the Fairie lond": A New Spenser Allusion', Notes and Queries, 245 (2000), 37
  • 'Thomas Phaer' for Tudor England: An Encyclopedia, ed Arthur F. Kinney (New York and London, 2001)
  • 'Spenser and Classical Traditions', in The Cambridge Companion to Spenser, ed. Andrew Hadfield (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 217-36
  • 'C. S. Lewis and the Allegory of Love', Essays in Criticism 53 (2003), 284-94
  • 'Reembodying Ovid: Renaissance Afterlives', in The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, ed. Philip Hardie (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 301-19
  • Entries for Robert Anton (fl. 1606-18); Peter Beverley (fl. 1566-8); Sir Arthur Gorges (d. 1625); Hugh Holland (1563-1633); William Hayward Roberts (1734-1791); Francis Rous (1580/1-1659); Sir Thomas Wyatt (c. 1503-1542) in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004)
  • 'Shakespeare and Humanistic Culture', in Shakespeare and the Classics, ed. Charles Martindale and Tony B. Taylor (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 9-32
  • 'Roman Satire in the Sixteenth Century', in The Cambridge Companion to Classical Satire, ed. Kirk Freudenberg (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 243-60
  • 'Henry Vaughan's 'The Queer': A Note on Queries', Notes and Queries 52 (2005) 310-311
  • " 'Editing the Sonnets' in Michael Schoenfeldt, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), pp. 145-162
  • " 'Why Shakespeare is not Michaelangelo', in Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. William Poole and Richard Scholar (London: Legenda, 2007), pp. 9-22
  • Group Biography, 'The Metaphysical Poets', The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • 'Reading Tudor Writing Politically: The Case of 2 Henry IV', in The Yearbook of English Studies 38 (2008), 234-50
  • 'Milton's Singularity', Lady Margaret Beaufort Lecture, Christ's College, Cambridge (podcast)
  • ‘The Borrowers: The idea of literary debt from Milton to Martin Amis’ The Guardian, Saturday 6 December 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/06/debt
  • 'The Appendix Vergiliana in the Renaissance', The Proceedings of the Vergil Society (2008)
  • 'Cambridge, St John's College Library, MS S.23' (a description of the manuscript along with a discussion of seventeenth-century manuscript poetical miscellanies; part of the Scriptorium project)
  • ‘The Reformation of the Household’, in Cultural Reformations, ed. James Simpson and Brian Cummings (Oxford, 2010), pp. 459-480
  • ‘Shakespeare the Poet’ for The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, 3rd edn. Ed. Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 91-104
  • ‘Ben Jonson’, in The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, ed. Claude Rawson (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 122-38
  • ‘Spenser’s Genres’ for The Oxford Spenser Handbook, ed. Richard McCabe (Oxford, 2010), pp. 403-29
  • ‘Higher Education’, for An Early Modern Reader, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (Oxford, Blackwell, 2010), pp. 501-10, plus 70pp of extracts
  • " 'Fantasies for Children', in Diana Wynne Jones, Reflections on the Magic of Writing (Oxford, 2012), pp. 279-85
  • 'Fictions of Collaboration: Authors and Editors in the Sixteenth Century', in Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 25, ed. Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne (Tübingen, 2011), pp. 175-98
  • ‘Classical Influences’, for The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare’s Poems, ed. Jonathan Post (OUP, 2013), pp. 97-115
  • Preface to E.R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (2013)
  • ‘What is a Shakespearean Tragedy?’ for The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, ed. Claire McEachern (2013), pp. 1-22
  • ‘James Thomson’ and ‘John Dryden’ in The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
  • ‘Montaignian Moments: Shakespeare and the Essays’, in Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar and Wes Williams, eds, Montaigne in Transit (Legenda, 2016), pp. 233-46
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets as Event’, in  Hannah Crawforth, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Clare Whitehead, eds, The Sonnets: The State of Play (Arden, 2017), pp. 97-116
  • ‘Shakespeare’s Authorities’, in Angus Vine and Katie Halsey, eds, Shakespeare and Authority: Citations, Conceptions and Constructions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 31-54
  • Shakespeare and Epic, in Epic Performances, ed. Fiona Macintosh (OUP, 2018)
  • 'Shakespeare, Cervantes and the Sonnet as Event', in Atti Dei Convegni Lincei: Il Nuovo Mondo: Cervantes, Garcilaso L'Inca, Shakespeare (Bardi Edizione, Rome, 2018), pp. 21-31
  • 'Imitation et Propriété Littéraire Au XVIIIe Siècle: De quelques Querelles et de leurs conséquences créatrice', in Querelles et création en Europe à l'époque moderne, ed. Jeanne-Marie Hostiou et Alexis Tadié (Classiques Garnier, 2019), pp. 281-323
 

Colin Burrow | All Souls College Oxford OX1 4AL |

Last Update: 7 May 2019