I didn’t know Kent well, but I also was the recipient of his
generosity, which was most often expressed, I think, toward those
younger than he was. And I’ve always been struck by how, once he had
stunned many of us with Short Times Endless Monument, he went on to
other projects with only the occasional look back—to the concern with
male aggression in Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, to the brilliant essay on
Du Bellay and Shakespeare and the ruins project that Anne mentioned, and
to the difficult, painstaking, important attempt to date Shakespeare's
sonnets. He was never afraid to mount an idea and ride it wherever it
took him. Bill Oram
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I, too, am saddened by the news of Kent's passing. As my supervisor at
Western
Ontario more than 20 years ago, Kent opened the world of Spenser's
imagination
to me, and guided me on my own explorations in Faerieland and beyond.
Kent and
Connie were at the center of the graduate social life (I have fond
memories of
many a Medieval feast at their lovely home). He will be greatly
missed.
Dr. Linda Vecchi
Department of English
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
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