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

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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
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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
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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
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. From 1956 to 1982 she taught at
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, 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

* Amy Boesky, Mary Thomas Crane (editors) (2000)
''Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski''
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