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Thank you for sharing this sad news. A wonderful scholar. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Tuggle, Brad <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > More important to my own work (namely, my undergraduate thesis on the rota > Vergilii in Spenser) was Professor Neuse’s article, “Milton and Spenser: > The Virgilian Triad Revisited” (ELH 45 [1978], 606-39). I still remember > the wonder that the paradigm and its Renaissance analogues as laid out by > Neuse inspired in me. I remember thinking, “Now, I am really learning > something!” And perhaps Neuse in that article wrote his own best epitaph > when noting the transitoriness of even the last and greatest poetic step, > Virgil’s grand epic: “Barring some miraculous transformation in the very > nature of things, there will always be a painful disparity between man’s > historical homeland and the Arcadia of his soul’s desire” (611). May his > soul’s desire now be achieved. Brad. > > Brad Tuggle > Assistant Professor > Honors College > The University of Alabama > Box 870169 > Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 > Office 205-348-7052 > [log in to unmask] > > > From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> on > behalf of Anne Prescott <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 1:23 PM > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Richard Neuse > > Thanks for even sad news. I remember. Yes, that essay still counts. Anne > > On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, David Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Fellow Spenserians, >> >> Harry Berger asked me to forward the news that Richard Neuse (in the >> words of his colleague Jim Rhodes) "died peacefully in his sleep on June >> 12." >> >> I met Richard at Kalamazoo decades ago, thrilled because I was at the >> time under the sway of his then-recent (but still-important) essay on "Book >> VI as Conclusion to *The Faerie Queene."* >> >> Let's take a moment to remember as another one slips away. >> >> David >> -- >> David Lee Miller >> University of South Carolina >> Columbia, SC 29208 >> (803) 777-4256 >> FAX 777-9064 >> [log in to unmask] >> Center for Digital Humanities <http://www.cdh.sc.edu/> >> Faculty Web Page <http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/people/pages/miller.html> >> >>