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Thanks for telling us. I loved Kent's scholarship especially his explications and his idea that Malory would have supplied material for the kingship of Arthur to which FQ looks forward. He encouraged me at a time when I felt isolated. Peter C. Herman wrote: > 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.