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Barbara Josephine Lewalski (; February 22, 1931 – March 2, 2018)Roberts, Sam (March 29, 2018).

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''. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2018-03-30.Barbara Lewalski profile
legacy.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10. was an American academic, an authority on Renaissance literature particularly known for her work on John Milton.


Early life

Born in
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, to John Kiefer, a farmer, and Vivo (), an elementary schoolteacher and speech therapist, she received her BSE at
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in 1950 and her AM in 1951. She went on to earn a PhD at the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...
in 1956.


Career

Her first book, ''Milton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained'', has been praised as a "trail-blazing" work that marshals "great learning in the service of understanding a specific artefact, without swamping the artefact." Lewalski was a
Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...
in 1967, and was elected a fellow of the
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in 1980 and a member of the
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in 1986. From 1983 to 2010 she was the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
. From 1956 to 1982 she taught at Brown University, holding the positions of Alumni-Alumnae University Professor (1976–82), Director of Graduate Studies in English (1968–72), and Chair of the Renaissance Studies Program (1976–80). In 2016, the Renaissance Society of America awarded her the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award for recognition of her decades of scholarship. Lewalski died in
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, at the age of 87. She had congestive heart failure and died of a heart attack on March 2, 2018.


Works

*''Milton's Brief Epic'' (1966) *''Donne's "Anniversaries" and the Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Symbolic Mode'' (1973) *''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'' (2007)


References


Further reading

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Amy Boesky Amy Boesky is an American author and a professor of English at Boston College. Life Born in Detroit, Boesky studied her undergraduate degree at Harvard College before completing a M.Phil in Renaissance English at the University of Oxford. After ...
, Mary Thomas Crane (editors) (2000)
''Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski''
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