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Peter Milward, SJ (12 October 1925 – 16 August 2017) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar. He was
emeritus professor ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...
of English Literature at
Sophia University Sophia University (Japanese: 上智大学, ''Jōchi Daigaku''; Latin: ''Universitas Sedis Sapientiae'') is a private research university in Japan. Sophia is one of the three ''Sōkeijōchi'' (早慶上智) private universities, a group of the to ...
in Tokyo and a leading figure in scholarship on English Renaissance literature. He was chair of the Renaissance Institute at
Sophia University Sophia University (Japanese: 上智大学, ''Jōchi Daigaku''; Latin: ''Universitas Sedis Sapientiae'') is a private research university in Japan. Sophia is one of the three ''Sōkeijōchi'' (早慶上智) private universities, a group of the to ...
from its inception in 1974 until it was closed down in 2014 and director of the Renaissance Centre from its start in 1984 until it was closed down in 2002. He primarily published on the works of
William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 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
Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innova ...
.


Life


Education

Born in London in 1925, Milward was educated at
Wimbledon College Wimbledon College is a government-maintained, voluntary-aided, Jesuit Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form for boys aged 11 to 19 in Wimbledon, London. The college was founded in 1892 "for improvement in living and learning for the ...
, entering the Society of Jesus in 1943 at the age of 18. He went on to study Classics and English Literature in
Heythrop College Heythrop College, University of London, was a constituent college of the University of London between 1971 and 2018, last located in Kensington Square, London. It comprised the university's specialist faculties of philosophy and theology with so ...
and Campion Hall, Oxford. In Oxford he made a point of attending the lectures of C. S. Lewis and the meetings of the Socratic Club. In 1954 he was sent to Japan, where he learnt the Japanese language and completed his study of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1960.


Academic career

Milward joined the Department of English Literature at Sophia University in 1962. In time he became vice-chairman of the Renaissance Institute at Sophia University, and editor of the Institute's ''Renaissance Monographs''. He was the first director of the university's Renaissance Centre, opened in 1984. After his retirement he continued to provide lectures at the Renaissance Centre. He is best known in Japan as the author of a series of readers and textbooks for the study of the English language and English literature, and as an essayist on comparative culture. Outside Japan, he is best known to academics as a specialist in
Renaissance literature Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance. The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance ...
who, largely on the basis of research in the Huntington Library, compiled two fundamental aids for the study of religion in early modern England: ''Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age'' (1977) and ''Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age'' (1978). Milward was also a book reviewer for ''
Monumenta Nipponica ''Monumenta Nipponica'' is a semi-annual academic journal of Japanese studies. Published by Sophia University (Tokyo), it is one of the oldest English-language academic journals in the field of Asian studies, being founded in 1938. Although the jo ...
''. After his retirement he was one of the leading proponents of the view that Shakespeare was a crypto-Catholic. He wrote regularly for the '' St. Austin Review''.


Select list of publications


As author


General works

*''Christian Themes in English Literature''. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1967. LCCN 75304081. Reprinted Folcroft: Folcroft Press, 1970. *''Fortunate Failures: an Autobiography of Error''. Azuma Shobo, 1975. *''Oddities in Modern Japan: Observations of an Outsider'' ihonjin no Nihon shirazu Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1980. *''The Bible as Literature''. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1983. . *''An Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna in English and American Literature''. Lewiston, N.Y., and Lampeter:
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, 1992. . *''A Poetic Approach to Ecology''. Ann Arbor, MI : Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2004. *''What is a University?''. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2006. . *''The English Reformation : from tragic reality to dramatic representation''. Oxford, UK : Family Publications, 2007. *''The Secret Life of Insects: an Entomological Alphabet''. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2009.


On Renaissance literature

*''Shakespeare's Religious Background''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973. . *"Teaching Shakespeare in Japan", ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 25:2 (1974), pp. 228–233. Available o
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to subscribers. *"The Jewel-Harding Controversy", ''Albion'' 6:4 (1974), pp. 320–341. Available o
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to subscribers. *''Biblical Themes in Shakespeare''. Renaissance Monographs 3. Tokyo: Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 1975. *''An Anthology of Medieval Thinkers: Prolegomena to Medieval and Renaissance Literature''. Renaissance Monographs 7. Tokyo: Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 1975. *''Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age: a Survey of Printed Sources''. With a foreword by G.R. Elton. Lincoln, Nebraska, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. .Reviewed in ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 32:1 (1979), pp. 106–108; ''Sixteenth Century Journal'' 10:2 (1979), p. 114; ''Shakespeare Quarterly'' 30:1 (1979), pp. 121–124. *''Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age: a Survey of Printed Sources''. Lincoln, Nebraska, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. . *''The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays''. Tokyo: Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 1997. Reprinted Southampton: Saint Austin Press, 1997. . *''Shakespeare's Apocalypse''. Saint Austin Literature & Ideas series. London: Saint Austin Press, 2000. . *"Shakespeare's Secular Bible: A Modern Commentary", ''Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture'' 4:3 (2001), pp. 108–114. *''Shakespeare's Meta-drama: Hamlet and Macbeth''. Renaissance Monographs 30. Tokyo: Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 2003. *''Shakespeare's Meta-drama: Othello and King Lear''. Renaissance Monographs 31. Tokyo: Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 2003. *''Shakespeare the Papist''. Ann Arbor, MI: Sapientia Press, 2005. . *''Jacobean Shakespeare''. Naples, FL: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2007. . *''Elizabethan Shakespeare''. Naples, FL: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2008. . *''Elizabethan Controversialists''. Campbell, CA: FastPencil, 2012.


On modern literature

*''A Commentary on G. M. Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland"''. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1968. Reprinted Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1991. . *'' A Commentary on the Sonnets of G.M. Hopkins''. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1969. Reprinted London: C. Hurst, 1970. Reprinted Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1985. . *''Landscape and Inscape: Vision and Inspiration in Hopkins's Poetry''. London: Elek, 1975. . *''The Heart of Natsume Soseki: first impressions of his novels''; with notes by Kii Nakano. okyo Azuma Shobo, 1982. *''A Challenge to C. S. Lewis''. London: Associated University Presses, 1995. . *''A Lifetime with Hopkins''. Ave Maria: Sapientia Press, 2005. .


As editor


Literary volumes

*G. K. Chesterton, ''Essays on Shakespeare''. Kenkyusha Pocket English series 233. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1968. *John Donne, ''Holy Sonnets'', edited with notes by Peter Milward and Shonosuke Ishii. Kenkyusha Pocket English Series 270. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1980. *
Natsume Sōseki , born , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known around the world for his novels '' Kokoro'', ''Botchan'', '' I Am a Cat'', '' Kusamakura'' and his unfinished work ''Light and Darkness''. He was also a scholar of British literature and write ...
, ''The Tower of London'', translated and edited with introduction, commentary, and notes by Peter Milward and Kii Nakano. Brighton: In Print, 1992. .


Academic volumes

*''Readings of The Wreck: essays in commemoration of the centenary of G. M. Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland"'', edited by Peter Milward, assisted by Raymond Schoder. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1976. . *''Poetry and Faith in the English Renaissance: essays in honour of Professor Toyohiko Tatsumi's seventieth birthday'', edited by Peter Milward. Renaissance Monographs 13. Tokyo: Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 1987. *''The Mutual Encounter of East and West, 1492–1992'', edited by Peter Milward. Renaissance Monographs 19. Tokyo: Renaissance Institute, 1992. *''Portuguese Voyages to Asia and Japan in the Renaissance Period: proceedings of the international conference held at Sophia University'', edited by Peter Milward. Renaissance Monographs 20. Tokyo: The Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 1994.


References


External links


Peter Milward Homepage
Sophia University. Accessed 2011-11-04. {{DEFAULTSORT:Milward, Peter 1925 births Alumni of Campion Hall, Oxford Alumni of Heythrop College British expatriate academics 20th-century English Jesuits 21st-century English Jesuits English expatriates in Japan 2017 deaths People educated at Wimbledon College Roman Catholic writers Shakespearean scholars Sophia University faculty Writers from London Jesuits from London