Prof Michael Alexander

Career: ed William Collins 1963, fell Princeton Graduate Sch 1965, lectr Univ of Calif 1966, ed André Deutsch 1967, lectr UEA 1968, reader Univ of Stirling 1985 (lectr 1969), Berry prof of Eng lit Univ of St Andrews 1985-2003 (hon prof 2003-); fell Eng Assoc; rep Scotland Round Britain Quiz (BBC)

Books and Publications: verse translations incl: The Earliest English Poems (1966, 3 edn 1991), Beowulf (1973, 2 edn 2001), Old English Riddles from the Exeter Book (1980, 2 edn 2008), The First Poems in English (2008); other publications incl: Twelve Poems (1977), The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound (1979, new edn 1998), Macmillan Anthology of English Literature (jt ed, 1989), Beowulf (ed, 1995, 2 edn 2005), Sons of Ezra (jt ed, 1995), The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment (ed, 1996), A History of English Literature (2000, 2 edn 2007), Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England (2007), The First Poems in English (2008), Geoffrey Chaucer (2012), Reading Shakespeare (2012)