Richard Alexander Arnold is the Eminent Professor and Chair of English at

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and an author and editor specializing in

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

Canadian literature Canadian literature is the literature of a multicultural country, written in languages including Canadian English, Canadian French, Indigenous languages, and many others such as Canadian Gaelic. Influences on Canadian writers are broad both ge ...

, and

Medieval literature Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of t ...

(focusing on

Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for '' The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...

, and

Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, ...

). Arnold received his B.A. with a double major in English and physics from

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

, his M.A. in English Literature from McMaster University, and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and English Literature from

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, Scotland, where he held the United Kingdom

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. His Ph.D. thesis presented at the University of Edinburgh was "''The English hymn in the eighteenth century : an historical and critical study''". Arnold is the author and editor of several books as well as numerous articles on 18th-century literature, 19th-century studies, editorial theory, cultural studies, and Medieval and Canadian literature. He is the recipient of distinguished fellowships, a medal for distinguished teaching, and appointments to review and adjudicate for major publishers worldwide. He has researched and taught in Canada, Great Britain,

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and Southeast Asia.

Books

Books written or edited by Richard Arnold include: *'' Crystalline Gems of Islamic Jurisprudence'' (Riyadh: Ministry of Islamic Affairs, 2009) *''Logic of the Fall: Right Reason and mure Reason in Milton's "Paradise Lost"'' (New York, 2006) *''English Hymns of the Nineteenth Century'' (New York, 2005) *''The English Hymn: Studies in a Genre'' (New York, 1995) *''English Hymns of the Eighteenth Century'' (New York, 1992)

References

Richard Alexander Arnold's profile from Alfaisal University
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