John Nash Douglas Bush (1896–1983) was a

literary critic A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature' ...

and

literary historian The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pie ...

. He taught for most of his life at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

, where his students included many of the most prominent scholars, writers, and academics of several generations, including Walter Jackson Bate, Neil Rudenstine,

Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include '' The New York Trilogy'' (1987), '' Moon Palace'' (1989), '' The Music of Chance'' (1990), ' ...

and Aharon Lichtenstein. Bush's

textual criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

and

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and politic ...

was widely influential. His ''English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century'' remains a standard reference work. He received his doctorate from

in 1923.

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 John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tub ...

. ''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)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Douglas __NOTOC__ 1896 births 1983 deaths Harvard University faculty American literary critics Harvard University alumni Corresponding fellows of the British Academy