...University, begin this new association with delight gratitude for the hospitality the Editorial Institute has extended us and for the extraordinary colleagues and students we are honored to join. The Editorial Institute "was formed with the conviction that the textually sound, contextually annotated edition is central to the intellectual life of many disciplines. Its primary aims are the promotion of critical awareness of editorial issues and practices and the provision of training in editorial methods" (from the website, we urge our readers to visit soon and often, www.bu.edu/editinst). Originally conceived by Geoffrey Hill, the Institute was founded in 1998 by Christopher Ricks, celebrated teacher, lecturer, critic, and scholar, serving as Co-Director, as Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, Oxford Professor of Poetry, President of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, and editor of Essays in Criticism. For Oxford, Penguin, and Faber and Faber, he has edited many volumes of British poetry and is currently editing the complete poems of T. S. Eliot while completing an eleven volume edition of Victorian Jurist James Fitzjames Stephen, a project generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to be published by Oxford University Press.

Serving as co-director of the Institute, Archie Burnett is Professor of English at Boston University, a renown Milton scholar, teacher and lecturer, acclaimed editor of A.E. Housman's poetry (1997) and letters (2007), now undertaking the complete poems of Philip Larkin. As Director of Publications,...

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