Stein, Arnold (Sidney) 1915-2002

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STEIN, Arnold (Sidney) 1915-2002


OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born April 27, 1915, in Brockton, MA; died October 9, 2002, in Minneapolis, MN. Educator, critic, and author. Stein was a scholar of John Milton; he taught English literature at American universities for nearly forty years. He began at the University of Washington in 1948, became the Sir William Osier Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University in the 1970s, and retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He also served on the central committee of the Folger Institute for Renaissance Studies and was named an honored scholar of the Milton Society of America. Stein was the author of Heroic Knowledge: An Interpretation of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, John Donne's Lyrics: The Eloquence of Action, The Art of Presence: The Poet and Paradise Lost, and The House of Death. Stein also edited a collection of essays on the work of Milton and served as the senior editor of the Journal of English Literary History.

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periodicals


Chronicle of Higher Education, January 10, 2003, p. A38.


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Business Week Online,http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/ (November 21, 2003), "The Human Face of Airport Security."

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