Early modern Spanish literature and culture: especially the re-appraisal of Renaissance and Baroque poetry/poetics; lyric theories /practice; legacy / reception of the Classics; Cervantes; Golden Age theatre
An intellectual historian, David Lines has a varied international background, from his upbringing in Italy to his university studies in the USA (PhD in History, Harvard, 1997)
Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.
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