Richard Willmott

Richard Willmott is a retired headmaster of the Dixie Grammar School and Chairman of the Traherne Association. He read English at Cambridge, and took a further degree in Renaissance French drama at UEA. In retirement he has taught poetry classes for the WEA and helps as an education volunteer at Hereford Cathedral. His previous publications include student editions of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience and of Ben Jonson’s Volpone and The Alchemist, and an introduction to metaphysical poetry.