Professor,
Co-director, Editorial Institute
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I have been a Professor in the English Department for 24 years. My teaching has hitherto concentrated on two historical survey courses, British Literature I and II, which cover literature from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. I have also taught, in the summer, a course called A Linguistic Approach to Literature. My research interests have centered on Milton (Milton’s Style: The Shorter Poems, ‘Paradise Regained’, and ‘Samson Agonistes’, Longman, 1981), and on poets A. E. Housman, Philip Larkin, and T. S. Eliot. In the case of these last three, I have produced scholarly editions with commentaries or notes: The Poems of A. E. Housman (Oxford English Texts edition, 1997), The Letters of A. E. Housman (2 volumes, Oxford, 2007), Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems (Faber, 2012), and The Collected Prose of T. S. Eliot (4 volumes, Faber, 2024). In addition, I have published many articles on Milton and Housman in scholarly journals.