Carey, John

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CAREY, John

CAREY, John. British, b. 1934. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Oxford University, Lecturer, Christ Church, 1958-59, Tutorial Fellow, Keble Coll., 1960-64, and St. John's Coll., 1964-75, Merton Professor of English Literature, 1976-2001. Publications: Milton, 1969; The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination, 1971, 2nd ed., 1991; Thackeray: Prodigal Genius, 1977; John Donne: Life, Mind, and Art, 1981 2nd ed., 1990; Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism, 1987; The Intellectuals and the Masses, 1992; Pure Pleasure, 2000. EDITOR: (with A. Fowler) Poems of John Milton, 1968, 2nd ed., 1997; The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by J. Hogg, 1969; William Golding: The Man and His Books, 1987; The Faber Book of Reportage, 1987; The Faber Book of Science, 1995; The Faber Book of Utopias, 1999. Address: 57 Stapleton Rd, Headington, Oxford, England. Online address: jcarey00@supanet.com

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