Thank you very much for this announcement. I'm glad to be prompted to
think a little bit about Professor Davis and his work. He was a wonderfully
lucid exponent of Elizabethan prose fiction: for me as a grad student in
the late sixties and early seventies, his work was important both
substantively and as a model of a scholarly voice that "spoke from the
page." In person too he was affable, generous, at professional gatherings
seemingly more interested in having a good conversation than in making a
name for himself. When I call up an image of him, he is smiling.
Jane Hedley
At 08:47 AM 12/8/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Many on this list may wish to learn of the recent death of Walter Davis,
>professor emeritus of English at Brown, and a loving student of Sidney,
>Spenser, and renaisssance literature. Walter died of heart failure
>December 2 after a long illness. Anyone who wishes to reach his family
>should write to me at my Brown address: [log in to unmask] A
>memorial service is anticipated in the new year.
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