The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0031 Wednesday, 15 February 2006
From: Carol Barton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 14 Feb 2006 17:57:22 -0500
Subject: Good night, sweet prince
I bear sad tidings.
On Saturday, the community of Milton and Shakespeare scholars was
bereaved of one of its most affable members, a scholar not only willing
to share the fruits of his long labor in the vineyard, but quick to
offer avuncular encouragement and guidance to least of us, and warm and
witty and funny to the end.
William Bridges Hunter, Jr., A.B., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D.,
Vanderbilt University, Southern gentleman and citizen of the world in
the best sense of those terms, as well as editor of the original _Milton
Encyclopedia_ on which so many of us cut our teeth, editor-by-default of
V.7 of the YP, editor of _The Complete Poetry of Ben Jonson_, and
author of _Visitation Unimplor'd_ (along with scholarly essays too
numerous to mention), visionary, iconoclast, friend, and teacher left
this world a little colder on Saturday, 11 February 2006.
His last efforts were focused on a collection of essays on _Midsummer
Night's Dream_, which he wrote from a wheelchair, bound there by a
medically inexplicable paralysis that frustrated his mind, but not his soul.
He will be deeply mourned, and sadly missed, especially by those of us
who had the good fortune to bask in his light.
The funeral arrangements are undetermined at this writing, but his
widow, Margaret, resides at 925 New Garden Road, Greensboro, NC 27410,
and would, I'm sure, be comforted by our expressions of respect and
condolence.
With sad heart,
Carol Barton
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