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Constantinos Patrides
Constantinos Apostolos Patrides (1930 – September 23, 1986) was a Greek–American academic and writer, and "one of the greatest scholars of Renaissance literature of his generation."

Patrides was born to Greek parents in New York City and grew up there and in Greece. During World War II, he fought with the Greek underground against the Nazi occupation. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1952 and earned a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1957. He served in the U.S. Army between 1952 and 1954. After Oxford, he taught at UC, Berkeley until 1964 when he moved to the newly-founded University of York in England "where he rose to a chair as Professor of English and Related Literature." Patrides was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960 to study English Literature. In 1978 he moved to the University of Michigan where he became G.B. Harrison Professor of English in 1981 and received the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1982. He was a prolific lecturer, nationally and internationally, and enormously popular with his students.

Patrides wrote many pioneering books and articles in his field which remain standard texts and he was also a masterful editor of classic English texts by Milton, Donne and Herbert.

He died in 1986 at the age of 56.

Selected works

 * Milton and the Christian Tradition (Oxford, 1969) ISBN 0208018212
 * The Grand Design of God: The Literary Form of the Christian View of History (Toronto, 1972) ISBN 0710074018
 * Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature (Princeton, 1982) ISBN 0691065055
 * The Complete English Poems of John Donne (Dent, 1985) ISBN 0460100912
 * The Cambridge Platonists (Cambridge, 1980) ISBN 052129942X
 * Bright Essence: Studies in Milton's Theology (University of Utah Press, 1971) ISBN	0835743829
 * The Age of Milton: Backgrounds to Seventeenth-century Literature (Manchester University Press, 1980) ISBN 0719007704
 * Approaches to Paradise Lost: The York Tercentenary Lectures (University of Toronto Press, 1968) ISBN 0802015778
 * Selected Prose by John Milton (University of Missouri Press, 1985) ISBN 0826204848
 * George Herbert: The Critical Heritage (Psychology Press, 1996) ISBN 0415134137