Dear members of the Pound list:

The message pasted in below came to me this afternoon via Marjorie Perloff.  I should report to the list members that Terry Terrell is also gravely ill.  He developed pneumonia about two weeks ago and has been hospitalized since then, much of the
time in a coma. He is showing some improvement but as of this time he is unable to breathe on his own.

The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Burt Hatlen


Date: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:02 AM -0800
From: Patrick McCarthy <[log in to unmask]>
To: English Faculty <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Death of Hugh Kenner

Friends and colleagues,

 Word reached me this morning of the death of Hugh Kenner, a dean
of early twentieth-century British scholarship and criticism. Kenner
taught in our department for some twenty-two years before moving on to
Johns Hopkins University.

 The greater works of his large and distinguished output were
published during his years at Santa Barbara.  These include books on
several major figures of his special period: Joyce, Yeats, Wyndham Lewis,
Beckett, and Pound.  He had begun with a book on Chesterton's paradoxes,
and like Chesterton, he had special enthusiasms to which he returned.
There were four books on Joyce, three on Beckett, and his group of writers
were the stepping off point for his later, less approving views of Ireland
and England.  He edited Pound, and his 1971 volume, _The Pound Era_ took
him years to do and was perhaps the culmination of his work at Santa
Barbara.  He was ever a defender of that thorny, brilliant writer.
Special non-literary interests led him to write books on Buckminster
Fuller, Buster Keaton, and even how to use geodesic math.

 Stories about life in the department during his years here abound.
It was often a time of contention and change.  He served terms as chairman
during those years, running the department (as one wag said), "out of his
hat."  He left us without much notice, moving East to Baltimore and then
on to the University of Georgia in Athens.  There he died at eighty years
of age.  He is survived by his wife Mary Ann and, I believe, his seven
children.

Patrick McCarthy