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John Nash Douglas Bush (1896–1983) was a
literary critic and
literary historian . He taught for most of his life at
Harvard University , where his students included many of the most prominent scholars, writers, and academics of several generations, including
Walter Jackson Bate ,
Neil Rudenstine ,
Paul Auster and
Aharon Lichtenstein . Students from the 60's report that Bush would sometimes speak in
decasyllables , so that it was hard to tell where his recitation of
Milton left off and where his commentary began.
Bush's
textual criticism on
Shakespeare and
John Milton was widely influential. His English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century remains a standard reference work.
He received his doctorate from
Harvard University in 1923.
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Major works
The Renaissance and English Humanism (1939)
English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 (1st ed. 1945, 2d ed. 1962)
(reprinted as): The Early Seventeenth Century 1600-1660: Jonson, Donne, and Milton (The Oxford History of English Literature, 1990)
Science and English Poetry: A Historical Sketch, 1590-1950 (1950)
Classical Influences in Renaissance Literature (1952)
Prefaces to Renaissance Literature (1965)
Engaged and Disengaged (1966)
Editions
John Keats . Selected Poems and Letters (1959)
John Milton. The Complete Poetical Works (1965)
A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton." Volume I: The Latin and Greek Poems (1970)
References
External links
International National Academics Other