Alastair Fowler

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Alastair Fowler

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#469

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#1207

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Literary Criticism

#72

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#121

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According to Wikipedia, Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA was a Scottish literary critic, editor, and an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology. Life and career Alastair Fowler was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1930. He 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.

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Alastair Fowler's Published Works

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Published Works

Kinds of Literature (1982) (101)
Genre and the Literary Canon (1979) (58)
The Selection of Literary Constructs (1975) (46)
Spenser and the numbers of time (1964) (44)
A history of English literature (1987) (39)
The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth-Century Estate Poems and Related Items (1994) (32)
Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry (1970) (27)
COUNTRY HOUSE POEMS: THE POLITICS OF A GENRE (1986) (26)
Spenser's images of life (1967) (24)
Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art (2003) (17)
The Life and Death of Literary Forms (1971) (17)
Silent Poetry: Essays in Numerological Analysis (1970) (16)
THE ‘BETTER MARKS’ OF JONSON'S TO PENSHURST (1973) (16)
The New Oxford book of seventeenth century verse (1991) (12)
Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature (2012) (10)
Periodization and Interart Analogies (1972) (10)
A history of English literature : forms and kinds from the Middle Ages to the present (1987) (7)
Conceitful Thought: The Interpretation of English Renaissance Poems (1977) (7)
Milton: Paradise Lost (2014) (6)
Emanations of glory : Neoplatonic order in Spenser's Faerie Queen (1973) (6)
RHYTHM AND MEANING (1956) (5)
The Formation of Genres in the Renaissance and After (2003) (5)
The Image of Mortality: "The Faerie Queene", II.i-ii (1961) (5)
OXFORD AND LONDON MARGINALIA TO “THE FAERIE QUEENE” (1961) (4)
Time's Purpled Masquers: Stars and the Afterlife in Renaissance English Literature (1996) (4)
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Dancing Men and Women (1991) (4)
The Iconography of Spenser's Occasion (1976) (4)
Spenser and War (1989) (3)
Emblems of Temperance in The Faerie Queene, Book II (2021) (3)
The Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe. Edited by Peter Davidson. 2 vols. Pp. xliii+383, xxii+676. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, 1999. Hb. £75, £115. (2000) (3)
Topics in criticism: An ordered set of positions in literary theory (1971) (2)
The Structure of Dryden's ‘Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687’ (1967) (2)
In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury (2014) (2)
Meaning versus describing (1994) (1)
How to Write (2006) (1)
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought – By Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns (2010) (1)
Apology for Rhetoric (1990) (1)
Novelist of Damnation (1953) (1)
Virgil and the Moderns@@@Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton@@@Epic Romance: Homer to Milton (1995) (1)
Proper Naming: Personal Names in Literature (2008) (1)
Georgic and Pastoral (2021) (1)
The Emblem as a Literary Genre (2021) (1)
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol. 3 : 1660–1790 (review) (2007) (1)
Genre and tradition (1993) (1)
OXFORD ENGLISH IN THE SIXTIES (2017) (0)
KINGSLEY AND KINSLEY AT SWANSEA (2009) (0)
Maren-Sofie Røstvig, Ars Aeterna and Other Essays on Literary Structure (2017) (0)
Books Received (1990) (0)
Relevance (2021) (0)
Shepherds in the wood (2002) (0)
PURITY OF SYNTAX IN ENGLISH VERSE (1958) (0)
Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England (2004) (0)
SPENSER AND RENAISSANCE ICONOGRAPHY (1961) (0)
BRUEGHEL'S "HUNTERS IN THE SNOW" (2014) (0)
Neo‐Historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History and Politics (2003) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Twelfth Night and Epiphany (2021) (0)
The myth of the few (1997) (0)
Trumpets and Asterisms (1996) (0)
Remembered Words (2021) (0)
Lord’s Space in Seventeenth-Century Britain (2021) (0)
Books Received (1997) (0)
Writing Criticism and Making Poems (1989) (0)
Leavis of the north (1998) (0)
The Title Justified (2010) (0)
ENIGMAS OF ENIGMA (2008) (0)
Numerical Composition in The Faerie Queene (1962) (0)
Pastoral Instruction in ‘As You Like It’ (2021) (0)
‘Paradise Regained’ (2021) (0)
The ‘Better Marks’ of Jonson’s To Penshurst (2021) (0)
Herrick, Fanshawe and the Politics of Intertextuality: Classical Literature and Seventeenth-Century Royalism. By Syrithe Pugh. Pp. 206. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Hb. £50. (2010) (0)
And yet he's ours (1999) (0)
THE CIVIL WAR CANON (1996) (0)
The logo makers (1994) (0)
‘Cut without hands’ (2021) (0)
A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton. Volume Four. Paradise Regained (1977) (0)
PERSONAL POETRY AND PERSONAL CRITICISM (1959) (0)
The revival of antique Philosophy in the Renaissance, by Alastair Fowler (2013) (0)
Obelisks and Pyramids (1996) (0)
Anagrams (2021) (0)
REVALUING THE ELIZABETHANS (1962) (0)
Oxford English Literary History, volume viii: 1830-1880: The Victorians (2003) (0)
C. S. LEWIS, TRANSLATOR (2013) (0)
Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature, by Joshua Scodel (2004) (0)
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol. 3: 1660–1790, edited by Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins (2007) (0)
C. S. Lewis: Supervisor (2008) (0)
From Divine Cosmos to Sovereign State: An Intellectual History of Consciousness and the Idea of Order in Renaissance England.Stephen L. Collins (1990) (0)
Isolation and Its Discontents (1960) (0)
Penshurst Revisited (2021) (0)
English Poetry: A Poetic Record from Chaucer to Yeats. Edited by David Hopkins. Pp. xii+269. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Hb. £50. (1993) (0)
The Last Confinement (1976) (0)
Frolics with oyster wenches (2003) (0)
Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems (2021) (0)
Milton as Multilingual: Selected Essays, 1982-2004 (review) (2006) (0)
Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style. By John K. Hale. Pp. xv+245. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Hb. £35. (1998) (0)
Gavin Douglas (2021) (0)
Milton as Multilingual: Selected Essays, 1982–2004, by John K. Hale (2006) (0)
Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future. Edited by Christopher Stray. Pp. viii + 229. London: Duckworth, 2010. Hb. £50. (2012) (0)
The plays within the play of Hamlet (2021) (0)
HERBERT'S VITRUVIAN ‘MAN’: SYMMETRY IN THE STANZA STRUCTURE (1985) (0)
Oxford English Literary History, volume ii: 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution (2003) (0)
A NEW CRITIC ON SPENSER (1960) (0)
Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance (2010) (0)
Histories of Heaven (1996) (0)
ENGLISH MUST BE KEPT DOWN (1962) (0)
The Paradoxical Machinery of The Rape of the Lock (2021) (0)
A new fashion in love (1993) (0)
An Open Letter to Privacy Professionals (2013) (0)
Speech Privacy Problems (1945) (0)

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