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First published in 1971,
Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems-
L'Allegro and
Il Penseroso, Milton's companion pieces, and
Lycidas, Pope's
Rape of the Lock and
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Johnson's
London.
List of contents
Preface 1. L'Allegro and Il Penseroso 2. Lycidas 3. The Rape of the Lock 4. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 5. London
About the author
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.
