Claes Schaar

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

1. 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.
2. "Utenlandske medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2021.