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Alastair Fowler

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Glasgow, Scotland

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Poetry, Literature

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Alastair David Shaw Fowler CBE FBA (b. 1930) is a Scottish literary critic and editor, an authority on Edmund Spenser, Renaissance literature, genre theory, and numerology. Fowler was educated at the University of Edinburgh, M.A. (1952). He was subsequently awarded an M.A. (1955), D.Phil. (1957) and D.Litt. (1962) from Oxford. As a graduate student at Oxford, Fowler studied with C.S. Lewis, and later edited Lewis's Spenser's Images of Life.

Fowler was junior research fellow at Queen's College, Oxford (1955 - 59). He also taught at Swansea (1959 - 61), and Brasenose College, Oxford (1962 - 71). He was Regius Professor of literature at the University of Edinburgh (1972 - 84) and also taught intermittently at universities in the United States, ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 490 ratings · 55 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Write 3.60 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of English Literature 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spenser and the Numbers of Time 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1964 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth-Century Estate Poems and Related Items 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars