Claes Schaar (1920 – 2012) was a Swedish literary historian.
He studied at Lund University and took the doctorate in 1949 with the thesis Critical Studies in the Cynewulf Group. He later studied Chaucer and Shakespeare; later issuing Marino and Crashaw. ospetto d’Herode: A Commentary (1971) and The Full Voic’d Quire Below: Vertical Context Systems in Paradise Lost (1982). He was professor of English literature at Lund University from 1964 to 1986.[1] He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1988;[2] also The Society of Sciences in Lund and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
References edit
- ^ Thormählen, Marianne (2013). "In Memoriam Claes Schaar (1920–2012)" (PDF). English Studies. 94 (1): 118–119. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2012.739832. S2CID 162378717. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ "Utenlandske medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
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