Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
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Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (born 1931) is an American academic, an authority on Renaissance literature particularly known for her work on John Milton.[1] Since 1983 she is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
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Life
Lewalski graduated B.S.E. at Emporia State University in 1950 and A.M. in 1951, Ph.D. in 1956 at the University of Chicago.[2] She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1967.[3]
Works
- Milton's Brief Epic (1966)
- Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century English Lyric (1979)
- Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985)
- Writing Women in Jacobean England (1993)
- The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (1996) editor
- The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000)
Notes
Further reading
- Amy Boesky, Mary Thomas Crane (editors) (2000), Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
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