Many of my reviews
in the
London Review of Books are extended essays on the
works or topics they discuss. Some of them are freely available on the
LRB
website. Others require a subscription. Sorry.
- An Augustan Wyatt', Review Article on H.A. Mason, Sir
Thomas Wyatt: a Literary Portrait, English 36
No.155 (1987)
- 'Who's Who?', Review of Terence Cave's Recognitions, English
38 No.161 (1989), 162-8
- 'Tudor Sanctuaries', Review of Alistair Fox, Politics and
Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, Essays
in Criticism 41 (1991), 51-61
- Review of S. Cauchi, ed., Sir John Harington's Translation
of Aeneid VI, Journal of Roman Studies, 1991
- Review of D.C. Steinmetz, ed., The Bible in the Sixteenth
Century, The Cambridge Quarterly 20 no.4 (1991),
355-7
- Review of Rosario Portale, Virgilio in Inghilterra,
Modern Language Review, 89 (1994), pp. 729-30
- Review of David Carlson, English Humanist Books, Medium
Aevum 63 (1994), 358-9
- 'Whither Milton?', The Cambridge Quarterly 25 (1996),
82-6
- 'Faith in Words', The Cambridge Quarterly 26 (1997),
67-72
- Review of John Watkins, The Specter of Dido: Spenser and
Virgilian Epic in Modern Philology 95 (1997),
103-6
- Review of Robert Thomas Fallon, Divided Empire: Milton's
Political Imagery in Modern Philology 95 (1998),
548-51
- 'Mouse-Eaten Records: Sidney among the Historians', Review of
Blair Worden, The Sound of Virtue in The Cambridge
Quarterly 27 (1998), 75-82
- 'Irish Spensers', Review of Willy Maley, Salvaging Spenser
and Andrew Hadfield, Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit
and Salvage Soyle in English 47 (1998), 135-9.
- 'Then Place my Purboil'd Head upon a Stake', Review of Peter
Davidson, ed., Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British
and Irish Literature, The London Review of Books
21 No. 1 (7th January 1999), 26-7
- Review of Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, Jonson, Shakespeare and
the early modern Virgil and Heather James, Shakespeare's
Troy, Translation and Literature 8 (1999), 255-9
- 'A Pickwick Among Poets, Exiled in the Fatherland of Pickled
Fish', Review of David Money, The English Horace: Anthony
Alsop and the Traditions of British Latin Verse, The
London Review of Books 21 No. 16 (19th August 1999), 21-2
- 'Brattishness', Review of W.A. Sessions, Henry Howard: The
Poet Earl of Surrey, The London Review of Books
21 no 22 (11 November 1999), 13-14.
- 'Editing Shakespeare's Sonnets', review article of Helen
Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Katherine
Duncan-Jones, ed., Shakespeare's Sonnets, The
Cambridge Quarterly 29 (1999), 1-14
- 'Imperiumsinefinism', review of Richard Jenkyns, Virgil's
Experience, The London Review of Books 22 no 5
(2 March 2000), 30-31
- 'Not for Horrid Profs', review of Frank Kermode, Shakespeare's
Language, The London Review of Books 22 no 11 (1
June 2000), 11-13
- 'Waves of Wo', Review of A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres by
George Gascoigne, edited by G.W. Pigman, The London Review of
Books 23 No. 13 (15 July 2001), 17-19
- Review of Stella Revard, Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's
Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems, The International
Journal of the Classical Tradition 7 no. 2 (2000), 138-9
- 'Dead Wrong', Review of How Milton Works by Stanley
Fish, The Economist June 16th-22nd 2001, 109-10
- 'Catching the Don', Review of Cervantes, Don Quixote,
translated by John Rutherford, TLS, 20 July 2001 (5129),
27
- 'Grit in the Oyster-Shell', Review of Samuel Pepys: The
Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin, The London Review
of Books 24 No. 22 (14 November 2002), 11-12
- 'Pity the Scapegoat', Review of Sweet Violence: The Idea of
the Tragic by Terry Eagleton, TLS 5195 (25
October 2002), 12-13
- 'A Joke Too Far', Review of Sir John Harington and the Book
as Gift by Jason Scott-Warren, The London Review of
Books 24 No. 16 (22 August 2002), 10-11
- 'Chapmaniac', Review of Chapman's Homer: The 'Iliad'
by George Chapman, ed. Allardyce Nicoll and Chapman's Homer:
The 'Odyssey' by George Chapman, ed. Allardyce Nicoll, The
London Review of Books 24 No. 12 (27 June 2002), 21-4;
repr. Hieronymus 4 (2002), 61-70
- 'Friskes, Skips and Jumps', Review of Michel de Montaigne:
Accidental Philosopher by Anne Hartle, The London
Review of Books 25 No. 21 (6 November 2003), 21-2
- 'Tuesday Girl' Review of Transformations of Love: The
Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin by Frances
Harris, The London Review of Books 25 No. 5 (6 March
2003), 3-5
- 'Halifax Hots Up', Review of Havoc, in Its Third Year
by Ronan Bennett, The London Review of Books 26 No. 20
(21 October 2004)
- 'Time to Mount Spain', Review of The Prince and the Infanta:
The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match by Glyn
Redworth, The London Review of Books 26 No. 17 (2
September 2004)
- 'Imparadised', Review of Green Desire: Imagining Early
Modern English Gardens by Rebecca Bushnell, The London
Review of Books 26 No. 4 (19 February 2004)
- 'No Way Out', Review of Memoir by John McGahern, The
London Review of Books 27 No. 20 (20 October 2005)
- 'You and Your Bow and the Gods', Review of A Cultural
History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of
Thought by Stephen Kern, The London Review of Books
27 No. 18 (22 September 2005) ·
- 'Who Wouldn't Buy It?', Review of Will in the World: How
Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt, The
London Review of Books 27 No. 2 (20 January 2005)
- 'Not Quite Nasty', Review of The Real Life of Anthony
Burgess by Andrew Biswell, The London Review of Books 28
No. 3 (9 February 2006)
- 'Recribrations', Review of Donne: The Reformed Soul by
John Stubbs, The London Review of Books 28 No. 19 (5
October 2006)
- 'It's a lie', Review of Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland,
The London Review of Books 28 No. 21 (2 November 2006)
- 'Conflationism', Review of Hamlet ed. Ann Thompson
and Neil Taylor, Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623 ed.
Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, and·‘Hamlet’ without Hamlet
by Margreta de Grazia, The London Review of Books 29
No. 12 (21 June 2007)
- 'A Hee-Haw to Apuleius', Review of The Solitudes by
John Crowley and Endless Things by John Crowley, The
London Review of Books 29 No. 21 (1 November 2007)
- Review of Katherine A. Craik. Reading Sensations in Early
Modern England, Review of English Studies,
Advance Access published online on November 13, 2007
- 'The Audience Throws Vegetables', Review of The Enchantress
of Florence by Salman Rushdie, The London Review of
Books 30 No. 9 (8 May 2008)
- Review of Katherine A. Craik, Reading Sensations in Early
Modern England, Review of English Studies 59
(2008), 143-145
- ‘Be Nice to Mice’, ‘The Testament of Cresseid’ and ‘Seven
Fables’ by Robert Henryson, translated by Seamus Heaney, The
London Review of Books 8 October 2009
- ‘How to Twist a Knife’, Review of Wolf Hall by Hilary
Mantel, The London Review of Books (30 April 2009)
- ‘She Doesn’t Protest: The Untranslatable Decameron’, The
London Review of Books 12 March 2009
- ‘Bob’s Bad Hair Day: Must Be Dylan’, The London Review of
Books Blog, 24 November 2009 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/24/colin-burrow/bobs-bad-hair-day/
- ‘The Impactometer™: A Modest Proposal’, The London Review
of Books Blog, 24 December 2009 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/12/24/colin-burrow/the-impactometer%E2%84%A2/
- ‘Shakespeareish: The New Arden Double Falsehood’, The
London Review of Books Blog, 25 March 2010 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/03/25/colin-burrow/shakespeareish/
- ‘Son of York’ York Notes Companions, The London
Review of Books Blog, 23 April 2010 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/04/23/colin-burrow/son-of-york/
- ‘Toolkit for Tinkerers’, review of The Art of the Sonnet
by Stephen Burt and David Mikics, The London Review of Books
24 June 2010
- ‘Adam to Zeus’, review of The Infinities by John
Banville, The London Review of Books 11 March 2010
- ‘Sudden Elevations of Mind’, review of The Works of Samuel
Johnson, Vols XXI-XXIII: The Lives of the Poets
edited by John Middendorf, The London Review of Books
4-17 February 2011, pp. 22-24
- 'Pissing on Idiots', review of Richard Bentley: Poetry and
Enlightenment by Kristine Louise Haugen, The London
Review of Books (6 October 2011)
- 'Pinned Down by a Beagle', review of The Tragedy of Arthur
by Arthur Phillips, The London Review of Books (1 December
2011)
- 'Big Head, Many Brains', review of A Man of Parts by
David Lodge, The London Review of Books (16 June
2011)
- 'Our Revels now are Ended', review of Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus
(http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/01/18/colin-burrow/our-revels-now-are-ended/)
- 'Gold-Digger', review of Sir Walter Ralegh in Life and
Legend by Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams and The
Favourite: Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth I's Court by
Mathew Lyons, The London Review of Books (8 March 2012)
- 'On your way, phantom', review of Bring Up the Bodies by
Hilary Mantel, The London Review of Books (7 June 2012)
- Review of Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser: Life, The
Literary Review 399 (June 2012), 11-12
- 'I, Lowborn Cur', review of Literary Names: Personal Names
in English Literature by Alastair Fowler, The London
Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 22 (22 November 2012), 15-17
- 'Fetch the Scissors!', Review
of Well Done God! Selected Prose and Drama of B.S. Johnson
edited by Jonathan Coe, Philip Tew and Julia Jordan, Trawl
by B.S. Johnson, Albert
Angelo by B.S. Johnson, Christie
Malry’s Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson, House Mother Normal by B.S. Johnson, The London Review of Books, Vol.
35 No. 7 (11 April 2013), 27-28
- 'Semi-colons
are for the weak', review of Solo: A James Bond Novel
by William Boyd, The London Review of Books, Vol. 35
No. 24 (19 December 2013), 33
- 'Burning
Love', review of Dante: The Divine Comedy translated
by Clive James, The London Review of Books, Vol. 35
No. 20 (24 October 2013), 19-2
- 'Frog's
Knickers', review of Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing
by Melissa Mohr, The London Review of Books, Vol. 35
No. 18 (26 September 2013), 25-27
- 'Rancorous
Old Sod', review of Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
by Geoffrey Hill, The London Review of Books, Vol. 36
No. 4 (20 February 2014), 11-13
- 'Clarety
Clarity', review of The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
edited by Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly, The London Review of
Books, Vol. 36 No. 15 (31 July 2014), 31-32
- 'Are
you a Spenserian?', review of Philology: The Forgotten
Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner, The
London Review of Books Vol. 36 No. 21 (6 November 2014),
35-37
- 'The
Empty Bath', review of Homer: 'The Iliad' translated
by Peter Green, The London Review of Books, Vol. 37
No. 12 (18 June 2015), 5-8
- 'What
is a pikestaff?', review of Metaphor by Denis
Donoghue, The London Review of Books, Vol. 37 No. 8
(23 April 2015), 27-28
- 'You've
listened long enough', Aeneid: Book VI translated by
Seamus Heaney, The London Review of Books, Vol. 38 No.
8 (21 April 2016), 13-14
- 'I
am a severed head', review of 'The Sea, the Sea'; 'A
Severed Head' by Iris Murdoch, The London Review of
Books, Vol. 38 No. 16 (11 August 2016), 19-20
- 'Big
Rip-Off', review of Shylock Is My Name: 'The Merchant of
Venice' Retold by Howard Jacobson, Vinegar Girl:
'The Taming of the Shrew' Retold by Anne Tyler, The
Gap of Time: 'The Winter's Tale' Retold by Jeanette
Winterson, Hag-Seed: 'The Tempest' Retold by Margaret
Atwood, The London Review of Books, Vol. 38 No. 21 (3
November 2016), 15-16
- 'On
Alice Oswald', The London Review of Books, Vol. 38 No.
18 (22 September 2016), 15
- 'Echoes
and Whisperings', review of House of Names by Colm
Tóibín, The London Review of Books, Vol. 39 No. 11 (1
June 2017), 7-8
- 'Ohs
and Ahs, Zeros and Ones', review of Theory of the Lyric
by Jonathan Culler, The London Review of Books, Vol.
39 No. 17 (7 September 2017), 33-35
- 'On
Philip Terry', The London Review of Books Vol. 39 No.
14 (13 July 2017), 16
- 'On
Les Murray', The London Review of Books Vol. 39 No. 15
(27 July 2017), 18
- 'His
Dark Example', review of The Book of Dust, Vol. I: La Belle
Sauvage by Philip Pullman, Daemon Voices: Essays on
Storytelling by Philip Pullman, The London Review
of Books Vol. 40 No. 01 (4 January 2018), 7-8
- 'On
Michael Longley', The London Review of Books, Vol. 39
No. 20 (19 October 2017), 34
- 'Light
through the Fog', review of The Odyssey translated by
Peter Green, The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson, The
Odyssey translated by Anthony Verity, The London
Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 8 (26 April 2018), 3-7
- 'Adjusting
the Mechanism', review of Robert Graves: From a Great War
Poet to 'Goodbye to All That', 1895-1929 by Jean
Moorcroft Wilson and Reader over Your Shoulder: A Handbook
for Writers of English Prose by Robert Graves and Alan
Hodge, The London Review of Books, Vol. 40 No. 19 (11
October 2018), 31-34
- 'Slice
of Life', review of The Long Take by Robin Robertson
The London Review of Books, Vol. 40 No. 16 (30 August
2018), 29
- 'Asterisks
and Obelisks', review of The Poems of Sextus Propertius
edited and translated by Patrick Worsnip, The London Review
of Books, Vol. 41 No. 5 (7 March 2019), 28-30
- Review of What
Blest Genius? by Andrew McConnell Stott and This Is
Shakespeare by Emma Smith, The Guardian 4 May
2019