A graduate of the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, Archie Burnett is best known for his scholarly editions of the poems and letters of A. E. Housman (Oxford, 1997, 2007) and the poems of Philip Larkin (Faber, 2012). He has been a co-director (2001–15) and director (2015–22) of the Editorial Institute at Boston University and currently serves as Professor in the English Literature Department.