Paul StevensPaul Stevens is Professor and former Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, his publications include Imagination and the Presence of Shakespeare in Paradise ost (1985), Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism (1998; co-edited with Viviana Comensoli) and Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England (2008; co-edited with David Loewenstein), which won the 2009 Irene Samuel Memorial Prize. He has twice won the James Holly Hanford Award for Most Distinguished Essay. A former Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, he has served as President of the Milton Society of America, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Read More Read Less