Douglas Bush

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John Nash Douglas Bush (1896–1983) was a literary critic and literary historian. He taught for most of his life at Harvard University, where his students included many of the most prominent scholars, writers, and academics of several generations, including Walter Jackson Bate, Neil Rudenstine, Paul Auster and Aharon Lichtenstein.

Bush's textual criticism on Shakespeare and John Milton was widely influential. His ''English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century'' remains a standard reference work.

He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1923.