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Clayton Lein

Professor, Department of English Office: Heavilon 440
Office Phone: (765) 494-3781
Office Fax: (765) 494-3780
Email: lein@purdue.edu

Specialization: British Literature; Seventeenth-Century prose and poetry, choral music, and music in the Renaissance


Clayton D. Lein is an award-winning teacher who was inducted into Purdue's Great Book of Teachers in 2002. He has published widely on such figures as John Donne, Izaak Walton, and Jonathan Swift, and his articles have appeared in such journals as English Literary Renaissance, The University of Toronto Quarterly, Comparative Literature, Studies in English Literature, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. He recently edited the volume British Prose Writers of the Early Seventeenth Century (Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1995) and is editor of English Renaissance Prose. A specialist in the poetry of Donne and seventeenth-century prose, his current research interest include the poetry of the mid-seventeenth century and Izaak Walton and his circle. His biography of Izaak Walton is in the final stages of preparation. He is also a professional musician and conductor and publishes on music. An article on Donne and the musicians of St. Paul's is forthcoming in the John Donne Journal.