1st Edition
Reinterpretations Essays on Poems by Milton, Pope and Johnson
Preface 1. L’Allegro and Il Penseroso 2. Lycidas 3. The Rape of the Lock 4. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 5. London
Biography
John Hardy, an Australian Rhodes Scholar, completed his Oxford doctorate as a “prize fellow” of Magdalen College, and after teaching for a year at the University of Toronto, returned to Australia as Professor of English at the University of New England and Australian National University, before becoming a Foundation Dean at Bond University, from which he retired as Emeritus Professor. During the 1980s he was Fellow and Secretary of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and director of its project for the Australian Bicentenary. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including major books of literary criticism on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dr Johnson and Jane Austen. Reinterpretations, his book of essays, received very favourable notice in British Book News.
Review of the first publication:
‘[The author’s] present arguments are strong, sensible, lucid and authoritative. His style is pleasant, and his book should be read by everyone interested in the literature of the period . . . He provides sensible, coherent, convincing judgments based on a detailed knowledge of the texts themselves and of the best modern criticism and scholarship . . . all students should benefit from the provision of such fruitful, constructive discussion.’
— British Book News
