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Professor Burton is an internationally renowned scholar of language, particularly medieval English and the Dorsetshire dialect poetry of the Victorian poet, William Barnes (1801-1886). The Chaucer Studio Press published his pronunciation guide to Barnes’ poetry in 2010, and (in collaboration with K. K. Ruthven) he is preparing a 3-volume critical edition of Barnes's complete poems for Oxford University Press.