I saw John about 10 years ago at the Folger Shakespeare Library where he was doing research on English Renaissance intellectual history (e.g.1550-1660).. After graduating from Swarthmore (with highest honors, humanities), he apecialized in English Renaissance poetry, e.g. Shakespeare's era, et. al. In retirement, he was the emeritus professor of British and American literature at New Colllege of Florida. His major work in recent years focused on Sir John Cheke, a leading English humanist who led the Greek revival in England. The campus newspaper, on his retirement, reported that he was welll-liked and admired, not only for the integrity of his scholarly work but as being partricularly helpful to students in learning how to wrtie well. The newspaper articlle is at http://ncf.sobek.ufl.edu/content/NC/F0/00/17/15/00281/Catalyst_May_10_2000_cw.pdf and his key publications are listed at: https://www.ncf.edu/directory/listing/john-f-mcdiarmid/
Lynn M. Etheredge
I saw John about 10 years ago at the Folger Shakespeare Library where he was doing research on English Renaissance intellectual history (e.g.1550-1660).. After graduating from Swarthmore (with highest honors, humanities), he apecialized in English Renaissance poetry, e.g. Shakespeare's era, et. al. In retirement, he was the emeritus professor of British and American literature at New Colllege of Florida. His major work in recent years focused on Sir John Cheke, a leading English humanist who led the Greek revival in England. The campus newspaper, on his retirement, reported that he was welll-liked and admired, not only for the integrity of his scholarly work but as being partricularly helpful to students in learning how to wrtie well. The newspaper articlle is at http://ncf.sobek.ufl.edu/content/NC/F0/00/17/15/00281/Catalyst_May_10_2000_cw.pdf and his key publications are listed at: https://www.ncf.edu/directory/listing/john-f-mcdiarmid/