Paradise Regained: The Tradition and the Poem

by Elizabeth Marie Pope

A dissertation submitting to the board of university studies of the Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
1944

123 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1947

About the author

Born in Washington D.C. on May 1, 1917, Pope later graduated from Bryn Mawr College and then earned her Ph. D. in English literature from John Hopkins University. Next she began teaching at Mills College in Oakland, California and remained there for many years. Beginning as an assistant professor and moving up to hold the position of professor and chairman of the department, Pope excelled as an instructor. Also an author, Pope concentrated mostly on Milton, Shakespeare, and Elizabethan England, and she traveled abroad in order to do historical research for her book The Perilous Guard which was selected for the Newbery Honor Book Award in 1975. Pope passed away in 1992.

Reviews

[Petrichor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this just so I could read everything Elizabeth Marie Pope published. I can't say that I've ever read a dissertation before, but I thought this quite a good one. There are long passages in Latin that Pope leaves untranslated, but since a lot of her dissertation was already going over my head, I wasn't particularly bothered.