Shawcross, John T.

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SHAWCROSS, John T.

SHAWCROSS, John T. American, b. 1924. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Bibliography. Career: Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1963-67, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967-70, and College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1970-79; University of Kentucky, Lexington, Professor of English, 1979-94, Professor Emeritus of English, 1994-. Publications: Seventeenth-Century Poetry, 1969; Poetry and Its Conventions, 1972; Myths and Motifs in Literature, 1973; With Mortal Voice: The Creation of Paradise Lost, 1982; Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700, 1984; Paradise Regain'd: Worthy t' Have Not Remain'd So Long Unsung, 1988; Milton and Influence, 1991; Intentionality and the New Traditionalism, 1991; John Milton: The Self and the World, 1992; The Uncertain World of Samson Agonistes, 2001. EDITOR: The Complete English Poetry of John Milton, 1963; (with R.D. Emma) Language and Style in Milton, 1967; The Complete Poetry of John Donne, 1967; Milton: The Critical Heritage, 2 vols., 1970-72; (with M.J. Lieb) Achievements of the Left Hand: Essays on Milton's Prose, 1974; (with M. Kelley and M. Lieb) Milton and the Grounds of Contention, 2003; "The Arms of the Family": Milton's Relatives and Associates, 2003. Address: Dept. of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, U.S.A. On- line address: [email protected]