Verdel Amos Kolve (1934–2022) was an honorary fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and a retired professor of English. [1]
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. 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 Amos Kolve (1934–2022) was an honorary fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and a retired professor of English. [1]
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. 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]