Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook is a British poet, novelist, librettist, and scholar known for reimagining classical and historical narratives in works like *Achilles* (2001) and *Lux* (2019). She edited *John Keats: The Major Works* (1990), wrote the libretto for Francis Grier’s *The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth* (2006), and her poetry collection *Bowl* (2006) featured a title poem on the London Underground. With a background in English literature from Oxford and a PhD from the Warburg Institute, she has lectured at universities and contributed essays to publications like *London Review of Books* and *Granta*.[2][5][6]