Peter Milward

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Father Peter Milward, SJ
BornPeter Christopher Milward
(1925-10-12)12 October 1925
London, England
Died16 August 2017(2017-08-16) (aged 91)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationJesuit priest; academic, educator and scholar
Period20th century

emeritus professor of English Literature at Sophia University in Tokyo and a leading figure in scholarship on English Renaissance literature. He was chair of the Renaissance Institute at Sophia University from its inception in 1974 until it was closed down in 2014 and director of the Renaissance Centre from its start in 1984 until it was closed down in 2002. He primarily published on the works of William Shakespeare[3] and Gerard Manley Hopkins
.

Life

Education

Born in London in 1925, Milward was educated at

Heythrop College and Campion Hall, Oxford. In Oxford he made a point of attending the lectures of C. S. Lewis and the meetings of the Socratic Club
. In 1954 he was sent to Japan, where he learnt the Japanese language and completed his study of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1960.

Academic career

Milward joined the Department of English Literature at Sophia University in 1962. In time he became vice-chairman of the Renaissance Institute at Sophia University, and editor of the Institute's Renaissance Monographs. He was the first director of the university's Renaissance Centre, opened in 1984. After his retirement he continued to provide lectures at the Renaissance Centre. He is best known in Japan as the author of a series of readers and textbooks for the study of the English language and English literature, and as an essayist on comparative culture.[citation needed]

Outside Japan, he is best known to academics as a specialist in

crypto-Catholic. He wrote regularly for the St. Austin Review.[citation needed
]

Select list of publications

As author

General works

On Renaissance literature

On modern literature

As editor

Literary volumes

Academic volumes

References

  1. ^ Genesis of an Octogenarian Peter Milward's autobiography (2008); accessed 4 November 2011.
  2. ^ "上智大学名誉教授(元 文学部教授)の ピーター・ミルワード 先生が、8月16日逝去されました - 訃報 - ニュース - 上智大学ソフィア会". www.sophiakai.gr.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  3. ^ Checklist of Milward's work on Shakespeare (through 2005) Archived 10 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine on Boston College website; accessed 4 November 2011.
  4. ^ Reviewed in The Modern Language Review 69:4 (1974), pp. 842–843; The Review of English Studies. New Series, vol. 26, no. 103 (1975), pp. 331–333; Shakespeare Quarterly 26:2 (1975), pp. 218–222.
  5. ^ Reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 32:1 (1979), pp. 106–108; Sixteenth Century Journal 10:2 (1979), p. 114; Shakespeare Quarterly 30:1 (1979), pp. 121–124.

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