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Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

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Name
  
Barbara Lewalski


Role
  
Author

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Education
  
University of Chicago (1956), Emporia State University (1950)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
The life of John Milton, Protestant Poetics and the S, Paradise lost and the rhetoric of, Writing women in Jacobean, Donne's Anniversaries and the p

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (born 1931) is an American academic, an authority on Renaissance literature particularly known for her work on John Milton. 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. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1967.

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)
  • (editor) The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (1996)
  • The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000)
  • (editor) John Milton, Paradise Lost (London: Blackwell, 2007)
  • References

    Barbara Kiefer Lewalski Wikipedia