It is my sad duty to report the death of Carroll F. ("Terry") Terrell on Saturday, Nov. 29, less than a week after the death of his beloved friend and mentor, Hugh Kenner. Both Terry and Hugh could be crusty types, but when Terry was first confined
to a nursing home last spring, after a fall in his home, Hugh and Mary Ann came to Maine to visit him, and I will be forever grateful for that act of kindness and loyalty. I recently wrote an article on Terry for the Ezra Pound Encyclopedia, and in
lieu of an obituary here is a slightly expanded version of that article.

Carroll F. Terrell, known to all Pound scholars as “Terry” Terrell, was born on February 17, 1917, in Richmond, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1940 and served as an officer in the United States Coast Guard from 1941 to 1946, stationed
primarily in the Caribbean. He received an M.A. from the University of Maine in 1950 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1956, writing a dissertation on Eliot’s Four Quartets. Terry taught full-time at the University of Maine from 1948 to 1982
and part time from 1982 to 1988.

In the 1960s Terry's attention shifted increasingly to Ezra Pound, and he devoted the rest of his life to the task of securing Pound's place within the literary canon. He brought to this task an extraordinary energy and an unflagging loyalty and
commitment. As part of this project, Terry taught Pound's poetry to many University of Maine students. On one occasion he inherited an Introduction to Poetry course from a colleague who had died, and he then devoted the rest of the semester
exclusively to Pound, leaving the students bewildered but fascinated. Terry often introduced students to Pound's poetry with the statement, enunciated in rolling rhythms reminiscent of Pound's own voice, "For many years I thought that Pound was the
grrreatest poet since Dante. Now I think he was the grrrreatest poet since Homer."

In 1971 Terry nominated Pound for an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from the University of Maine, and Pound agreed to travel to the United States to accept the degree. However, while the University administration approved the honorary degree,
the Board of Trustees refused to vote the degree on the grounds that Pound was a traitor.

Also in 1971 Terry the National Poetry Foundation, dedicated initially to publishing the works of scholarship that would, Terry believed, help secure for Pound a central place in the literary canon. As a first step in this process, Terry began, once
again in 1971, to lay the groundwork for the publication of Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship. As senior editors, Terry recruited Hugh Kenner, whose recently published The Pound Era had stimulated renewed interest in Pound's
work, and Eva Hesse, a great German scholar who was translating  Pound's Cantos into German. The first issue of Paideuma was published in 1972, and the journal remained a primary organ of Pound studies for the next thirty years. While Terry modestly
titled himself only the Managing Editor, he in fact edited Paideuma essentially single-handed from its founding until 1998.

 In 1974 Terry also initiated a book series under the National Poetry Foundation imprint; the first NPF publication was James J. Wilhelm’s Dante and Pound: The Epic of Judgement, and in subsequent years NPF published more than a dozen additional
Pound-related books. NPF also branched out from Pound himself to publish books on poets affiliated with Pound, including in particular the Man and Poet/Woman and Poet Series, which has to date published volumes of biography and critical commentary
on such poets as William Carlos Williams. H.D., Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Louis Zukofsky, and many others. Terry himself edited the volumes on Williams, Zukofsky, and Bunting; the other volumes in the series were edited by scholars
recruited by Terry.

In 1972 Terry set to work on what would become his magnum opus, A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound. The Companion draws on the work of many Pound scholars, especially the contributors to Paideuma during its first ten years of publication, in
providing glosses for every reference in the text of The Cantos. From1977 to 1981 a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed Terry to devote most of his time to this project; volume I of the Companion, covering Cantos 1 to 71,
was published in 1980, followed by volume II in 1984.

Terry also made a major contribution to Pound studies by organizing a series of conferences devoted to the poet’s work. In 1975, 1980, and 1985, Terry hosted Pound conferences on the campus of the University of Maine, and in 1990 he hosted a
Pound/Yeats conference. These conference brought to the University of Maine such key figures in Pound studies as Hugh Kenner, Marjorie Perloff, M. L. Rosenthal, John J. Espey, Louis Martz, Walter Baumann, Donald Gallup, James Wilhelm, Donald Davie,
Hugh Witemeyer, Wendy Flory, David Moody, Leon Surette, Ronald Bush, and many others. Conference participants also included poets such as Donald Hall, Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg; members of Pound’s family, including Mary de Rachewiltz and
Olga Rudge; and friends of Pound, such as Louis Zukofsky, James Laughlin, David Gordon, Marcella Booth, and Sherri Martinelli. In the 1980s Terry also organized conferences on poets affiliated with Pound, including William Carlos Williams 1984),
H.D. 1986), Marianne Moore 1987), and T. S. Eliot 1988).

Terry’s own essays on Pound are collected in Ideas in Reaction: Byways to the Pound Arcana (Northern Lights Press, 1991). Under the NPF imprint, Terry has also published three sections of a long poem modeled on The Cantos: Smoke and Fire (1985), Rod
and Lightning (1985), and Dark and Light (1986). In 1993 he published a memoir of his childhood, Growing Up Kennebec: A Downeast Boyhood (Northern Lights Press, 1993).

Burton Hatlen