Verdel Kolve

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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

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Verdel 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, studying at Jesus College. 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]

Verdel died on November 5, 2022, at the age of 88.[5][6]

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