Annabel M. Patterson (born August 9, 1936) is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University.
work received the highest prize, the Governor General's Gold Medal.
[4] She has written over 16 books and about 70 refereed articles on topics as varied as Holinshed’s Chronicles, eighteenth-century libel law, the reception of Virgil’s eclogues in Europe, editions of Aesop’s fables, censorship, liberalism, parliamentary history, as well as Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, John Locke, and of course Andrew Marvell, whose canon she helped reshape.
She won the Harry Levin Comparative Literature prize (1987) for Pastoral and Ideology[8] and the John Ben Snow Prize for Reading Holinshed’s Chronicles (1994).
[10] In April 2008, Patterson delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley.