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Alastair Fowler

Author of The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse

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Includes the names: Alistair Fowler, Alastair. Fowler ed, Alastair Fowler, ed., Prof Alastair Fowler, Alastair Fowler (ed.)

Works by Alastair Fowler

The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (1991) 156 copies

How to Write (2007) 82 copies

A History of English Literature (1987) 67 copies

Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes (1982) 49 copies

Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature (2012) 19 copies

Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art (2003) 9 copies

The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages (2017) 9 copies

Time's Purpled Masquers: Stars and the Afterlife in Renaissance English Literature (1996) 7 copies

The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth-Century Estate Poems and Related Items (1994) 6 copies

Edmund Spenser (Writers & Their Work) (1978) 5 copies

Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry (1970) 5 copies

Spenser and the Numbers of Time (1964) 4 copies

Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems (2021) 3 copies

Silent poetry essays in numerological analysis (1970) 2 copies

Paradise Lost: a commentary 1 copy

'Laughter in court: ... Milton's God & Stanley Fish's scepticism' in TLS 5135, 31 Aug 2001 [review of Stanley Fish's 'How Milton works'] 1 copy

Conceitful thought : the interpretation of English Renaissance poems (1975) 1 copy

Catacomb Suburb 1 copy

'Enter Speed: a feverish life of Shakespeare, like history on amphetamines' in TLS 5314, 4 Feb 2005 [review of Stephen Greenblatt's 'Will in the World'] 1 copy

Associated Works

Paradise Lost (1667) — Editor, some editions — 16,644 copies, 129 reviews

Paradise Lost with a Commentary Volume (2014) 10 copies, 1 review

Poems (Annotated English Poets S) (1968) — Editor — 6 copies

"Fanned and winnowed opinions" : Shakespearean essays presented to Harold Jenkins (1987) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Legal name: Fowler, Alastair David Shaw
Birthdate: 1930-08-17
Gender: male
Education: Queen's Park School, Glasgow
University of Glasgow
University of Edinburgh
Pembroke College, Oxford (DPhil|1957)
Occupations: Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature
Organizations: Queen's College, Oxford
University College, Swansea
Brasenose College, Oxford
University of Edinburgh
Relationships: Lewis, C. S. (teacher)
Short biography: Married to Jenny Fowler, with one daughter, Alison, and one son, David.
Nationality: Scotland
UK
Birthplace: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Places of residence: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (birth)
Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
Associated Place (for map): Scotland

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Also by: 4
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ISBNs: 42
Languages: 1

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