Verdel Amos Kolve (January 18, 1934 – November 5, 2022) was an American academic who was an honorary fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and a professor of English.[1]
Life and career
editVerdel was born in Wisconsin in 1934 to Amos and Gunda Kolve. He had a younger sister, Lois.[2] Kolve gained his first degree at the University of Wisconsin, following which he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1955. He stayed on as a post graduate and was supervised by J. R. R. Tolkien.[1]
In 1966 he published The Play Called Corpus Christi (London: Arnold) in which he looked at a range of mystery plays – drawn from the York Cycle, Chester Cycle, Towneley cycle and the misnamed "Coventry Cycle".[3] In 1968 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "V. A. Kolve | Honorary Fellow | St Edmund Hall". St Edmund Hall. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ^ "Verdel A Kolve in the 1940 Census | Ancestry". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ^ Thomas, R. George (1969). "Reviews". The Review of English Studies (77): 76–77. doi:10.1093/res/XX.77.76. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Verdel A. Kolve". www.gf.org. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ^ "Professor Verdel "Del" Kolve (1934–2022)". UCLA. 21 November 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
- ^ "Verdel A. Kolve". Legacy. Retrieved 13 October 2024.