Professor Emeritus; University College;
Areas of Interest
- Poetry
- Prose and Drama 1640-1750
Publications
Articles on Richard Bentley, Edward Bernard, Samuel Butler, John Eachard, Henry Hammond, William King, John Pearson, Humphrey Prideaux, Anthony Scattergood, Sir Edward Sherburne and others in ODNB (2004);
"Politics and Scholarship in the Ignatian Controversy", SCen (1998);
Editor, Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius "De rerum natura" (1996);
"Ease and Flow in Lucy Hutchinson’s Lucretius", SP (1996);
"Richard Bentley’s Spider-Web", IJCT (1994);
"Lucretius and Swift’s Tale of a Tub", UTQ (1994);
"St. Patrick’s Verses and Jonathan Swift", SStud (1994).
Current Research
Reception of classical texts 1600-1800. Bogus letters.
Education
BA, University of London
PhD, University of London