Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

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According to Wikipedia, Barbara Josephine Lewalski was an American academic, an authority on Renaissance literature particularly known for her work on John Milton. Early life Born in Topeka, Kansas, to John Kiefer, a farmer, and Vivo , an elementary schoolteacher and speech therapist, she received her BSE at Emporia State University in 1950 and her AM in 1951. She went on to earn a PhD at the University of Chicago in 1956.

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The Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance (1974) (124)
Writing women in Jacobean England (1993) (112)
Biblical Allusion and Allegory in "The Merchant of Venice" (1962) (81)
How Milton Works@@@The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2002) (65)
"The Pilgrim's Progress" and Traditions in Puritan Meditation@@@The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe's Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in "Robinson Crusoe" (1967) (63)
Paradise lost and the rhetoric of literary forms (1987) (54)
Milton's Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of 'Paradise Regained'@@@Milton and the Italian Cities (1970) (51)
Renaissance genres : essays on theory, history, and interpretation (1986) (44)
Re-Writing Patriarchy and Patronage: Margaret Clifford, Anne Clifford, and Aemilia Lanyer (1991) (35)
Milton on Women—Yet Once More (1974) (34)
The life of John Milton (2000) (34)
New essays on Paradise lost (1969) (23)
Forum: Milton's Christian Doctrine (1992) (17)
“PARADISE LOST” AND MILTON'S POLITICS (2000) (16)
The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (1996) (16)
Writing Women and Reading the Renaissance (1991) (15)
Milton and Idolatry (2003) (14)
Donne's Anniversaries and the Poetry of Praise: The Creation of a Symbolic Mode (1973) (13)
A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634 (1963) (12)
Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (review) (1985) (10)
Samson Agonistes and the “Tragedy” of the Apocalypse (1970) (10)
Love, Appearance and Reality: Much Ado about Something (1968) (8)
The genres of Paradise Lost (1999) (8)
Moderation and Its Discontents: Recent Work on Renaissance Women (1994) (8)
On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament (1963) (7)
The Complete Works of John Milton, Vol. 3: The Shorter Poems (2012) (7)
Milton: Political Beliefs and Polemical Methods, 1659–60 (1959) (6)
Paradise Lost and the Contest over the Modern Heroic Poem (2009) (6)
How radical was the young Milton (1998) (6)
Naturam non pati senium (1963) (5)
John Donne: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.Anthony Raspa (1977) (4)
Time and History in Paradise Regained (1973) (4)
Anne of Denmark and the Subversions of Masquing (1993) (4)
Milton on Learning and the Learned-Ministry Controversy (1961) (3)
On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough (1963) (3)
The Ship-tempest imagery in "Samson Agonistes" (1959) (3)
[TOXICOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE IMPREGNATE "A"]. (1963) (3)
Milton: The Muses, the Prophets, the Spirit, and Prophetic Poetry (2013) (2)
Bishop Joseph Hall and Protestant Meditation in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Texts of The Art of Divine Meditation (1606) and Occasional Meditations (1633).Frank Livingston Huntley (1983) (2)
ON LOOKING INTO POPE'S MILTON (1978) (2)
How Poetry Moves Readers: Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (2011) (2)
MILTON'S “SAMSON” AND THE “NEW ACQUIST OF TRUE [POLITICAL] EXPERIENCE” (1988) (2)
Contemporary History as Literary Subject: Milton's Sonnets (2013) (2)
An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester (1963) (2)
Major poets of the earlier seventeenth century: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell (1973) (2)
On the University Carrier (1963) (2)
THE PROBLEM OF ACCLIMATIZATION TO HOT-CLIMATE REGIONS. I. SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICATORS IN PERSONS EXAMINED IN THE HIGH TEMPERATURE CHAMBER. (1964) (1)
Book Review: Sir Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Protestantism: A Study of ContextsSIR PHILIP SIDNEY AND THE POETICS OF PROTESTANTISM: A STUDY OF CONTEXTS. By WeinerAndrew D., Minneapolis; University of Minnesota Press, 1978. (1980) (1)
Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden . By Joseph E. Duncan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972. 9 + 329 pp. $12.50. (1974) (1)
Chapter 3. "Argument Heroic Deem'd": The Genres of the Satanic Heroic Mode (1985) (1)
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE VOL 2 PDF%0D (2019) (1)
“DAVID'S TROUBLES REMEMBRED”: AN ANALOGUE TO “ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL” (1964) (1)
RESISTING TYRANTS : Elizabeth Cary’s tragedy (2002) (1)
De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit (2012) (1)
The Shorter Poems (2000) (1)
MILTON: DIVINE REVELATION AND THE POETICS OF EXPERIENCE (1992) (1)
At a solemn Musick (2012) (1)
Chapter 12. Edward Taylor: Lisps of Praise and Strategies for Self-Dispraise (1985) (1)
Milton, the bible, and human experience (1988) (1)
THE PROBLEM OF ACCLIMATIZATION TO HOT-CLIMATE REGIONS. II. UROPEPSIN CONTENTS IN THE URINE FROM MEN STAYING IN THE CHAMBER OF HIGH TEMPERATURE. (1964) (1)
Upon the Circumcision (2012) (1)
Milton and Gender – Edited by Catherine Gimelli Martin (2007) (1)
THE GENRES OF "PARADISE LOST": LITERARY GENRE AS A MEANS OF ACCOMMODATION (1983) (1)
Milton on Authorship: Personae and Poet-Characters (2015) (1)
A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.Anna Weamys , Patrick C. Cullen (1997) (1)
MILTON AND “DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA”: EVIDENCES OF AUTHORSHIP (1998) (1)
“Tireless … for the Sake of Liberty” 1652–1654 (2008) (0)
Sonnet 12 'A book was writte …' (2012) (0)
Milton: A Biography. William Riley Parker (1970) (0)
[THE URINARY UROPEPSIN LEVEL IN LONGSHOREMEN UNDER A HEAVY WORK LOAD IN AREAS WITH MINIMUM MECHANIZATION]. (1963) (0)
“Domestic or Personal Liberty” 1642–1645 (2008) (0)
“Higher Argument”: Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost 1665–1669 (2008) (0)
Elegia tertia, Anno ætatis 17 (1963) (0)
PART I. LITERARY CONTEXTS AND DONNEAN INNOVATIONS (2015) (0)
Elegia septima, Anno ætatis undevigesimo (1963) (0)
Hæc ego mente olim lævâ (2012) (0)
“Service … Between Private Walls” 1645–1649 (2008) (0)
Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes (2010) (0)
Sonnet 23 'Mee thought I saw …' (2012) (0)
Chapter 10. Henry Vaughan: Pleading in Groans of My Lord's Penning (1985) (0)
The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume III: The Shorter Poems (816pp.) (2012) (0)
In inventorem Bombardæ (1963) (0)
PART IV. THE LEGACY OF DONNE'S SYMBOLIC MODE (2015) (0)
Other Manuscript Versions (2012) (0)
Chapter 4. The Biblical Symbolic Mode: Typology and the Religious Lyric (1985) (0)
INVESTIGATIONS ON THE SURFACE SENSATION AS A SENSITIVE TEST FOR EARLY DISCOVERY OF DISORDERS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES. (1965) (0)
“The Childhood Shews the Man” 1608–1625 (2008) (0)
Hobson’s Epitaph (2012) (0)
Raymond B. Waddington. Looking into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost. Toronto; Buffalo, NY; and London: U of Toronto P, 2012. xiv + 310pp. ISBN 13: 9781442643420. $65.00 (cloth). (2013) (0)
Milton’s shorter poems (2010) (0)
The Sidney Family Romance: Mary Wroth, William Herbert, and the Early Modern Construction of Gender.Gary Waller (1996) (0)
Poems Omitted from 1645 and 1673 (2012) (0)
Chapter 9. George Herbert: Artful Psalms from the Temple in the Heart (1985) (0)
On the Marchionesse of Winchester (2012) (0)
A Maske (The Bridgewater Manuscript) (2012) (0)
In quintum Novembris (1963) (0)
In Effigiei Ejus Sculptorem (1963) (0)
“I Became Desirous … of Seeing Foreign Parts, Especially Italy” 1638–1639 (2008) (0)
Chapter 1. Genre (2007) (0)
Books Received (1999) (0)
XIX. Methought I saw my late espoused Saint (2012) (0)
The Poetics of Protestantism and the English Literary Renaissance (1980) (0)
Chapter 10. "Not Less but More Heroic": Prophecy and the Transformation of Literary Forms (1985) (0)
22 Skinner TM (2012) (0)
Other Hobson Poems (2012) (0)
To Oliver Cromwell [1694] (2012) (0)
Apologus de Rustico & Hero (1963) (0)
XI. A Book was writ of late call’d Tetrachordon' (1963) (0)
Chapter 6. Protestant Emblematics: Sacred Emblems and Religious Lyrics (1985) (0)
V ‘Per certo i bei vostr’occhi, Donna mia’ (1963) (0)
Sonnet 9 'Ladies, that in ye prime of earliest youth' (2012) (0)
BARBARA K. LEWALSKI ON WHY MILTON MATTERS (2005) (0)
In proditionem Bombardicam (1963) (0)
In Memoriam: Ernest Sirluck, 1918‐2013 (2013) (0)
“I … Still Bear Up and Steer Right Onward” 1654–1658 (2008) (0)
Chapter 3. The Poetic Texture of Scripture: Tropes and Figures for the Religious Lyric (1985) (0)
Part I. Biblical Poetics (1985) (0)
[INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING THE WORKS OF DOCKERS EMPLOYED AT CEMENT LOADING]. (1965) (0)
Thomason epitaph sonnet / Sonnet 14 (2012) (0)
XVIII. Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench' (1963) (0)
Chapter 7. Art and the Sacred Subject: Sermon Theory, Biblical Personae, and Protestant Poetics (1985) (0)
[New pneumographometric method of investigation of respiratory function]. (1954) (0)
On Shakespear. 1630. (2012) (0)
“In Darknes, and with Dangers Compast Round” 1660–1665 (2008) (0)
Chapter 11. Thomas Traherne: Naked Truth, Transparent Words, and the Renunciation of Metaphor (1985) (0)
XIII To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires (1963) (0)
Authorship and Author-Characters in Sidney and Wroth (2015) (0)
Chapter 1. “Is there in truth no beautie ?”: Protestant Poetics and the Protestant Paradigm of Salvation (1985) (0)
Milton and the Science of the Saints.Georgia B. Christopher (1983) (0)
The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth.Josephine A. Roberts (1994) (0)
Elegia secunda, Anno ætatis 17 (1963) (0)
Sonnet 21. First Cyriack Skinner sonnet (2012) (0)
Philosophus ad regem quendam &c. (1963) (0)
Chapter 2. Inspiration and Literary Art: The Prophet-Poets of Paradise Lost (1985) (0)
Elegia quarta. Anno ætatis 18 (2012) (0)
Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem (1963) (0)
"Paradise Lost" "Introduced" and "Structured in Space" (1963) (0)
Sonnet 7 'How soone hath Time …' (2012) (0)
VIII ‘Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms’ (1963) (0)
Chapter 2. Biblical Genre Theory: Precepts and Models for the Religious Lyric (1985) (0)
Remembering John Shawcross (1924‐2011) (2011) (0)
At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge (2012) (0)
Milton and the Kingdoms of God . By Fixler Michael. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1964. 293 pp. $6.50. (1966) (0)
Epilogue: “Something … Written to Aftertimes” (2008) (0)
Poems Published in Other Places and Manuscript Versions (2012) (0)
I ‘O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray’ (1963) (0)
In eandem ‘Quem modò Roma …’ (1963) (0)
Chapter 8. John Donne: Writing after the Copy of a Metaphorical God (1985) (0)
The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I (1963) (0)
In eandem ‘Purgatorem animæ derisit …’ (1963) (0)
Sonnet to Lawes (2012) (0)
Another on the same (1963) (0)
On the morning of Christ's Nativity, Compos'd 1629 (2012) (0)
Milton's Spenser: The Politics of Reading.Maureen Quilligan (1986) (0)
The Heavenly Muse: A Preface to Milton.A. S. P. Woodhouse (1974) (0)
Chapter 6. "Our Happy State": Literary Forms for Angelic Wholeness (1985) (0)
A Maske (Trinity College Cambridge) (2012) (0)
Review: Donne, Milton, and the End of Humanist RhetoricDONNE, MILTON, AND THE END OF HUMANIST RHETORIC. By SloaneThomas O., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. ISBN 0-520-05212-9. Pp. xv + 332. $28.50. (1986) (0)
Re-writing Patriarchy and Patronage (2020) (0)
“To Cambridge … for Seven Years” 1625–1632 (2008) (0)
Chapter 8. "Our Pleasant Labor": Georgic and Comedic Modes and Genres in Eden (1985) (0)
“The Last Words of Our Expiring Libertie” 1658–1660 (2008) (0)
Chapter 5. "Other Excellence": Generic Multiplicity and Milton's Literary God (1985) (0)
Unpublished Latin Verses (2012) (0)
List of Emblems (1985) (0)
Book Review:Complete Prose Works of John Milton. Vol. 6. Christian Doctrine Maurice Kelley, John Carey, John Milton (1975) (0)
1673 Poems Added (2012) (0)
Paradise Lost, the Bible, and Biblical Epic (2015) (0)
The Protestant Poetry of Meditation@@@Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1982) (0)
To my Lord Fairfax [1694] (2012) (0)
Chapter 1. Paradise Lost As Encyclopedic Epic: The Uses Of Literary Forms (1985) (0)
In eandem ‘Siccine tentasti …’ (1963) (0)
VII ‘How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth’ (1963) (0)
IX ‘Lady that in the prime of earliest youth’ (1963) (0)
Milton: Aristocrat and Rebel. (1994) (0)
“To Try, and Teach the Erring Soul” 1669–1674 (2008) (0)
Sonnet 8. When the assault was intended to ye Citty (2012) (0)
PART II. THEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS AND DONNEAN DEVELOPMENTS (2015) (0)
A Paraphrase on Psalm 114 (1963) (0)
“To this must be added”: Milton's Advice to Miltonists (2011) (0)
PSAL. I. Done into Verse, 1653 (1963) (0)
Chapter 5. Protestant Meditation: Kinds, Structures, and Strategies of Development for the Meditative Lyric (1985) (0)
[MEASUREMENT OF NOISE ON SHIPS]. (1963) (0)
Upon old Hobson the Carrier of Cambridge (2012) (0)
From The Life and Death of Sir Henry Vane, kt. (2012) (0)
[Pulmonary ventilation in hypoxic-hypercapnic hypothermia in rats]. (1957) (0)
X ‘Daughter to that good Earl, once President’ (1963) (0)
XII ‘I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs’ (1963) (0)
Chapter 4. "Semblance of Worth, not Substance": The Discursive and Lyric Genres of the Damned (1985) (0)
Book Review:Complete Prose Works of John Milton, Vol. IV: 1650-1655 Don M. Wolfe (1968) (0)
Sonnet 11. On the detraction wch follow'd … (2012) (0)
[ESTIMATION OF THE BURDENSOMENESS OF THE WORK OF WELDERS EMPLOYED IN DOUBLE BOTTOMS OF VESSELS]. (1965) (0)
To Mr. CYRIAC SKINNER Upon his Blindness. [1694] (2012) (0)
XVIII On the late Massacher in Piemont (1963) (0)
Trinity Manuscript Versions not Transcribed Elsewhere (2012) (0)
[MICROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS ON TUGBOATS AND HEALTH CONDITIONS OF THE CREW]. (1963) (0)
XIV ‘When Faith and Love which parted from thee never’ (1963) (0)
PART III. THE SYMBOLIC MODE OF DONNE'S ANNIVERSARIES (2015) (0)
Chapter 7. "A Happy Rural Seat of Various View": Pastoral Idyl and the Genres of Edenic Innocence (1985) (0)
XVII. Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son (2012) (0)
“Studious Retirement”: Hammersmith and Horton 1632–1638 (2008) (0)
Chapter 9. "I Now Must Change Those Notes to Tragic": The Fall and the Tragic Genres (1985) (0)
Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts: Iconographic Tradition in the Epic Poems.Roland Mushat Frye (1979) (0)
Recent Studies in the English Renaissance (1974) (0)
“All Mouths Were Opened Against … the Bishops” 1639–1642 (2008) (0)
[EVALUATION OF THE PHYSICAL EFFORT OF LONGSHOREMEN EMPLOYED IN A LOADING OPERATION WITH MINIMUM MECHANIZATION]. (1963) (0)
To Sir Henry Vane [1694] (2012) (0)
“The So‐Called Council of State … Desired to Employ My Services” 1649–1652 (2008) (0)
In Memoriam: Amy M. Charles (2016) (0)
The Diary of Anne Clifford 1616-1619.Anne Clifford , Katherine O. Acheson (1997) (0)

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