Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Encyclopedia
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski 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
.
in 1950 and A.M. in 1951, Ph.D. in 1956 at the University of Chicago
. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1967.
John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
. Since 1983 she is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
.
Life
Lewalski graduated B.S.E. at Emporia State UniversityEmporia State University
Emporia State University is a university in the city of Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas, just east of the Flint Hills.- History :...
in 1950 and A.M. in 1951, Ph.D. in 1956 at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. 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)
- The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (1996) editor
- The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000)
Further reading
- Amy BoeskyAmy BoeskyAmy Boesky is an American author and a professor of English at Boston College.-Life:Amy Boesky is an Associate Professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches English literature and creative nonfiction writing....
, Mary Thomas Crane (editors) (2000), Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski