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Winter 1951 • Vol. XIII No. 1 • My Credo: A Symposium of Critics (Continued) |

VI. The Humanist Critic¹

By Douglas Bush

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Douglas Bush (1869-1983) was a literary critic, historian, and Harvard University professor. He is well known for his work on Shakespeare and John Milton as well as his reference work, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century.

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