Background
Peterson, Richard Scot was born on July 14, 1938 in Ayr, Scotland. Son of R. Stanley and Willa Marie (Snyder) Peterson. (parents American citizens).
(In the first edition of this now-classic text, Richard Pe...)
In the first edition of this now-classic text, Richard Peterson offered an important revaluation of the poetry of Ben Jonson and a new appreciation of the way in which the classical doctrine of imitation-the creative use of the thoughts and words of predecessors-permeates and shapes Jonson's critical ideas and his work as a whole. The publication of the original book in 1981 led to a reinterpretation of the poems and a coherent view of Jonson's philosophy; the resulting portrait of Jonson served as a corrective to earlier views based primarily on the satiric poems and plays. This second edition of Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson makes Peterson's important scholarship available to a new generation of scholars and students.
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literature educator Renaissance scholar
Peterson, Richard Scot was born on July 14, 1938 in Ayr, Scotland. Son of R. Stanley and Willa Marie (Snyder) Peterson. (parents American citizens).
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1960; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1968.
Instructor English, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1966-1969; assistant Professor of English, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1969-1972; lecturer English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1972-1975; assistant Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1976-1980; associate Professor of English, U. Connecticut, Storrs, 1980-1985; Professor of English, U. Connecticut, Storrs, since 1986.
(In the first edition of this now-classic text, Richard Pe...)
Member Spenser Society (chair McCaffrey award committee 1988-1989).
Married Lin Kelsey, August 28, 1965. 1 child, Timothy Scot.