Clarence H. Miller is an American

United States

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 professor emeritus of English

English language

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 at Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...

. He is best known for major contributions to the study of Renaissance literature

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, and creating the classic translations from Latin

Latin

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 of Saint Thomas More

Thomas More

Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...

's 1516 book Utopia

Utopia (book)

Utopia is a work of fiction by Thomas More published in 1516...

, and Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus , known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and a theologian....

's 1509 The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly

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. Utopia is considered one of the most important works of European humanism. Miller was also Executive Editor of the Yale University

Yale University

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 Thomas More variorum

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 project, which produced, over a period of decades, the 15-volume Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More

Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More

The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More is the standard scholarly edition of the works of Thomas More, published by Yale University Press. The first of the fifteen volumes to be published appeared in 1963, and the last in 1997...

.

Biography

Miller was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and attended Rockhurst, the Jesuit high school there. He received his Bachelor's degree at Saint Louis University, and his PhD at Harvard University

Harvard University

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. At Saint Louis University, he was the Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English Literature. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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 in 1966.

Translations

• Thomas More's Utopia: A New Translation with Introduction and Notes (New Haven and London: Yale University Press
  Yale University Press
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  , 2001)

• Translator of The Second part of Erasmus' Hyperaspistes Diatribae de Libero Arbitrio, and primary author of the commentary, Collected Works of Erasmus in English, vol. 77 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press
  University of Toronto Press
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  , 2000). Co-editor Charles Trinkaus

• Translator of The First Part of Erasmus' Hyperaspistes Diatribae de Libero Arbitrio, and primary author of the commentary, Collected Works of Erasmus in English, vol. 76 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). Co-editor Charles Trinkaus

• An edition of Thomas More's Utopia, Latin text and English translation (Cambridge University Press, 1995). Collaborators: Robert Adams and George Logan

• Erasmus, Poems, trans. Clarence H. Miller, edited and annotated Harry Vredeveld Collected Works of Erasmus, vols. 85 and 86 (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1993)

• A new translation, with introduction and commentary, of Erasmus' Praise of Folly and his Letter to Dorp (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979)

• Italian translation of Al Montesi poem "Fellini's Peacock," River King Poetry Supplement 3/3 (Autumn/Winter 1997), 7

Editor

• Co-editor of Thomas More's English Poems, Life of Pico, and The Last Things, vol. 1 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997). Co-editors Anthony S. G. Edwards and Katherine Gardiner Rodgers

• Co-editor with Elizabeth McCutcheon of Utopia Revisited, a collection of articles on Utopia in Moreana Nos. 118-19, vol. 31

• Co-editor of St. Thomas More's Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls, and Letter against Frith. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 7 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990). Co-editors: Frank Manly, Germain Marc'hadour
  Germain Marc'hadour
  Germain Marc'hadour was a professor of English at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest , an internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Thomas More and founder of the journal Moreana.-Life and career:...
  
  , and Richard Marius
  Richard Marius
  Richard Curry Marius was an American academic and writer.He was a scholar of the Reformation, novelist of the American South, speechwriter, and teacher of writing and English literature at Harvard University...
  
  

• Co-editor of St. Thomas More's The Debellation of Salem and Bizance. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 10 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988). Co-editors: John Guy and Ralph Keen

• Co-editor of St. Thomas More's Answer to the First Part of the Poisoned Book. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 11, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985). Co-editor: Stephen Foley

• Co-editor of St. Thomas More's Latin Poems. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 3, part 2 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984). The text, my commentary and my part of the introduction have been translated into Italian as Tutti gli Epigrammi di Thomas More, tr. Ligi Firpo, ed. Luciano Paglialunga (Cinisello Balsalmo-Milan; Edizioni San Paolo, 1994).

• Erasmus' Moriae encomium, id est Stultitiae laus, vol. 3 in group 4 of Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami sponsored by the International Academic Union and the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Amsterdam and Oxford: North Holland Publishing Company, 1979)

• An edition of St. Thomas More's De tristitia Christi. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. 14 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1976). The English translation is reprinted in The Sadness of Christ and Final Prayers and Instructions, ed. with an introduction by Gerard Wegemer (Princeton, N.J.: Scepter Publishers, 1993)

• An edition of The Praise of Folie, translated by Sir Thomas Chaloner (1549). Early English Text Society, Original Series No. 257 (Oxford University Press, 1965)

Articles

• Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder (1521-65) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: in Association with the British Academy: from the Earliest Times to the Year 2000, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), X, 893-96.

• "A Formerly Unknown Italian Translation of the Paris Newsletter Concerning the Trial and Execution of St. Thomas More," ANQ
  Notes and Queries
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  : A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 17/3 (Summer 2004): 20-26

• "In Memoriam Louis L. Martz, Prince of the More Project, 1913-2201," Moreana
  Moreana
  Moreana is a quarterly academic journal dedicated to publishing contributions to the study of the life, times, and writings of Thomas More. It began publication in September 1963 as the journal of the Association Amici Thomae Mori, founded in Brussels the previous year, and was based at the...
  
  , 38 (December 2001): 185-96. This memorial piece contains a complete bibliography of the writing of Louis Martz.

• "A Borrowing by Luther from Erasmus' Praise of Folly in 1518," Notes and Queries
  Notes and Queries
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   (Oxford University) NS 47/1 (2000): 22-23

• "The Daylily and the Dioscuri in Ben Jonson's Cary-Morison Ode," English Language Notes (University of Colorado at Boulder) 37/4 (June 2000): 21-9

• "Seventeenth-century Latin Translations of Two English Masterpieces: Hooker's Polity and Browne's Religio medici," Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Abulensis: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, ed. Rhoda Schnur et al. (Tempe, AR: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000), pp. 55-72

• "Christ as the Philosopher's Stone in George Herbert's `The Elixir,'" Notes and Queries (Oxford University), N. S. 45/1 (March 1998), 39-40

• "G. M. Hopkins' `Spring' as a May-Day Poem," Hopkins Quarterly, 221/1-2 (1994, published 1996), 23-27

• "The Devil's Bow and Arrows: Another Clue to the Identity of the Yeoman in Chaucer's Friar's Tale," The Chaucer Review
  The Chaucer Review
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  , 30 (1995), 211-14

• "The May-day Celebration in Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode.'" Studies in English Literature 27 (1987): 571-79

• "Some Medieval Elements and Structural Unity in Erasmus' Praise of Folly." Renaissance Quarterly 27 (1974): 499-511

• "Chaucer's Pardoner and the Mass." Chaucer Review 6 (1972): 171-84. Co-author: Roberta Bosse

• "A Vatican Manuscript Containing Three Brief Works by St. Thomas More." Moreana
  Moreana
  Moreana is a quarterly academic journal dedicated to publishing contributions to the study of the life, times, and writings of Thomas More. It began publication in September 1963 as the journal of the Association Amici Thomae Mori, founded in Brussels the previous year, and was based at the...
  
  , No. 26 (1970): 41-44

• "The Holograph of Thomas More's Expositio Passionis: A Brief History." Moreana, Nos. 15 and 16 (1967): 372-79

• "Donne's 'A nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day' and the Nocturns of Matins." Studies in English Literature 6 (1966): 77-86. Reprinted in Essential Articles for the Study of John Donne and his Poetry, ed. John Roberts (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975), pp. 305-10

• "The English Translation in the Yale Utopia: Some Corrections." Moreana, No. 9 (1966): 57-64

• "The Order of Stanzas in Cowley's and Crashaw's 'On Hope.'" Studies in Philology 61 (1964): 64-73

• "The Styles of The Hind and the Panther." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 61 (1962): 511-27