His bachelor's degree was in German at the University of Reading, where he also gained an M.Phil with a dissertation on Christi Leiden, a medieval manuscript.
[4] Andrew Higgins, reviewing the book in Journal of Tolkien Research, calls it "a very interesting and compelling group of articles" in an under-studied area.
He praises Turner's own chapter on influences on Tolkien's verse, including the Christian poet Francis Thompson.
He remarks, too, on Turner's suggestion that Tolkien's practice of embedding varied kinds of poem in a prose work may have come from William Morris.
[7] In 2014, to mark Turner's 65th birthday, Honegger and Dirk Vanderbeke edited a festschrift in his honour, entitled From Peterborough to Faëry: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds.