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Columbia CollEgE Today AROuND THE quADs
iN memoriam
n sir frank Kermode, the Julian Clarence
Levi Professor Emeritus in the Humanities
during the 1980s, died on August 17 at his
home in Cambridge, England. He was 90.
Kermode, who was knighted in 1991,
was one of the most distinguished literary
critics of his generation, especially in his
studies of Shakespeare and early modern
literature. He published more than 50 books
across a wide range of literature on authors
as various as Beowulf, Homer, Philip Roth
and Wallace Stevens. A prolific reviewer, he
contributed frequently to The London Review
of Books, which he helped create, The Times
Literary Supplement and The New York Review
of Books. He became co-editor of Encounter
in 1964. Kermode’s The Sense of An Ending:
Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967, 2000)
and The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation
of Narrative (1979) have endured as
classic works of criticism. His latest book,
Concerning E.M. Forster, was published last
December.
Kermode was born in Douglas, Isle of Man,
and graduated from Liverpool University in
1940. He was a professor at King’s College,
Cambridge and the University College of
London before moving to the United States
in 1982. He taught at Columbia, Harvard and
Yale, and in 2003, he was presented with an
honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Columbia.
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