 | Awake the Courteous Echo: The Themes Prosody of Comus, Lycidas, and Paradise Regained in World Literature with Translations of the Major Analogues Thirty-seven years of research in the libraries of the world have unearthed an impressive array of analogues of Comus, Lycidas, Paradise Regained, and the more important of these are now made available in Kirkconnell's English translation in Awake the Courteous Echo. Kirkconnell Watson : Watson Kirkconnell (1895-1977) was an army officer, a professor emeritus of Latin and English, ninth president of Acadia University (1948-1964), a Milton scholar, author of many volumes of prose and poetry, historian, and genealogist. He was also the joint founder of the Federal Citizenship Branch (1940), the Humanities Research Council of Canada (1943) and the Baptist Federation of Canada (1944). In 1936 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. |
