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Hi Anne, I knew Kent Hieatt only at a distance, but my one or two meetings with him are enough to assure me of the tremendous loss. Please convey to his family my sorrow at his passing. pch At 06:09 AM 1/9/2009, you wrote: >Dear List--With a heavy heart I must report, at Bert Hamilton's >request, that Kent Hieatt has just died of pneumonia, at least spared >the last stages of his Alzheimer's disease. Many of us knew him, loved >him, and had cause to be grateful to him whether as scholars or as >friends or, of course, both. He was long a regular at Kalamazoo and >needless to say his work on Spenser, particularly (for me at least) on >the Epithalamion and numerology, was seminal. I once had a student who >wrote on her exam that "Spenser believed in a new morology and he >thought that this morology would make his marriage last a long time." >Before we became good friends I wrote Kent, who had been of my >professors at Columbia, a letter quoting this wonderful misconception >and he wrote back saying that "according to Desiderius E., without the >*old* morology we would not get married to begin with." Typical of his >mischievous wit. A lot of us will miss him even as we are relieved >that his suffering is over. Bert is not on the list or he would have >written you himself. Anne Prescott.