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Bush's Textual Criticism on Shakespeare and John Milton was widely influential. His ''English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century,'' though later overtaken by more theoretically-informed approaches to literary history, remains a standard reference work.


MAJOR WORKS


  • ''The Renaissance and English Humanism'' (1939).

  • ''English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660'' (1st ed. 1945, 2d ed. 1962).

  • ''Classical Influences in Renaissance Literature'' (1952).

  • ''Prefaces to Renaissance Literature'' (1965).

  • ''Engaged and Disengaged'' (1966).



EDITIONS


  • John Keats. ''Selected Poems and Letters'' (1959).

  • John Milton. ''The Complete Poetical Works'' (1965).

  • ''A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton." Volume I: The Latin and Greek Poems (1970).