I am so sorry to hear of Kent's death. He was my dissertation supervisor. When I came to Canada for Ph.D studies, with my 4-year-old daughter, he kindly invited us to dinner and took my daughter's arm, leading her into the house as if she were a grown-up lady!
Marianne
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From: Germaine Warkentin <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:18:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Kent Hieatt
How very sorry I am to learn of the late sufferings and final passing of
Kent Hieatt! I knew him for so long I can't remember when we first met,
but I owe him a tremendous debt; the piece I wrote in the Spenser
Encyclopedia on Amoretti and Epithalamion -- and indeed much else --
would not have been possible without his imaginative work.
Ground-breaking is hardly the word for it -- imagination is what he had,
and tough scholarship to go with it. And such a collaborator with
others! A very great loss. Germaine
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto),
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA
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