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Alastair Fowler

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Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA is a Scottish literary critic and editor, an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology. Fowler was educated at the University of Edinburgh, M.A. . He was subsequently awarded an M.A. , D.Phil. and D.Litt. from Oxford. As a graduate student at Oxford, Fowler studied with C.S. Lewis, and later edited Lewis's Spenser's Images of Life.

Fowler was junior research fellow at Queen's College, Oxford . He also taught at Swansea , and Brasenose College, Oxford . He was Regius Professor of literature at the University of Edinburgh and also taught intermittently at universities in the United States, including Columbia and the University of Virginia .

Fowler is known for his editorial work. His edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, part of the Longman poets series, has some of the most scholarly and detailed notes on the poem and is widely cited by Milton scholars.

Alastair Fowler

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Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA is a Scottish literary critic and editor, an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology. Fowler was educated at the University of Edinburgh, M.A. . He was subsequently awarded an M.A. , D.Phil. and D.Litt. from Oxford. As a graduate student at Oxford, Fowler studied with C.S. Lewis, and later edited Lewis's Spenser's Images of Life.

Fowler was junior research fellow at Queen's College, Oxford . He also taught at Swansea , and Brasenose College, Oxford . He was Regius Professor of literature at the University of Edinburgh and also taught intermittently at universities in the United States, including Columbia and the University of Virginia .

Fowler is known for his editorial work. His edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost, part of the Longman poets series, has some of the most scholarly and detailed notes on the poem and is widely cited by Milton scholars.

Books from Alastair Fowler

The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse

Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes,

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Time's Purpled Masquers

Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

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The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages

Teoría de los géneros literarios

How to Write

A History of English Literature

The Poems of John Milton [Illustrated]

Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art

Edmund Spenser (Writers & Their Work)

From the Domain of Arnheim

A History of English Literature

How to Write

Spenser and the Numbers of Time

English Verse 1830 - 1890 (Longman Annotated Anthologies of English Verse)

Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems