Prof. John K Leonard
Fellow
Current Employer
Western University
Election Year
2015
Academy
Académie des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada
Discipline
Literature
Keywords
Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, John Milton, Paradise Lost, poetry, renaissance literature, early modern literature
Updated July 13, 2015
LEONARD, John, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University
John Leonard is Professor of English at Western University. He is an internationally recognized scholar in renaissance/early modern literature, especially the poetry and prose of John Milton. He has won four international prizes, including Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America (only the sixth Canadian to win this lifetime achievement award since 1948). The Times Literary Supplement has called him “one of the greatest Milton scholars working today.”
LEONARD, John, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University
John Leonard is Professor of English at Western University. He is an internationally recognized scholar in renaissance/early modern literature, especially the poetry and prose of John Milton. He has won four international prizes, including Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America (only the sixth Canadian to win this lifetime achievement award since 1948). The Times Literary Supplement has called him “one of the greatest Milton scholars working today.”
Updated July 13, 2015
John Leonard est un Professeur de littérature Anglaise à la Western University. Il est un intellectuel reconnu internationalement dans le domaine de la littérature de la renaissance/pré-moderne, spécialisé dans la poésie de John Milton. Il a emporté quatre prix internationaux, dont le “Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America” (seulement le sixième Canadien à remporter cet honorable prix depuis 1948). Le Times Literary Supplement l’a nommé “un des plus grands spécialistes de Milton à continuer son oeuvre de nos jours”.
John Leonard est un Professeur de littérature Anglaise à la Western University. Il est un intellectuel reconnu internationalement dans le domaine de la littérature de la renaissance/pré-moderne, spécialisé dans la poésie de John Milton. Il a emporté quatre prix internationaux, dont le “Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America” (seulement le sixième Canadien à remporter cet honorable prix depuis 1948). Le Times Literary Supplement l’a nommé “un des plus grands spécialistes de Milton à continuer son oeuvre de nos jours”.