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Benson acknowledged that Robinson's decision, coupled with the retirement of one of Harvard's prominent scholars in the field, Porter Professor of English Morton W. Bloomfield, would leave the Department a little "shorthanded" in medievalists...
...Bloomfield and another Harvard medievalist, Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred, yesterday joined Benson in expressing regret about Robinson's decision to stay at Yale. Both said there was a wide pool of possible candidates for the position, but that Harvard had not yet focused on any particular scholars...
...There are other good people, but we would have preferred him," Bloomfield said. "We know his methods and we like his methods," he said of Robinson, whom he called" a very fine candidate perhaps the best...
Citing Robinson's personal commitments in New Haven, Bloomfield said, "Benson and I, we both had our doubts he would leave Yale...
...Bloomfield added that Bercovich "has just revolutionized the field of American literature." Bloomfield cited in particular the Columbia scholar's work in realizing the importance of Puritan typology, that is, the way those early settlers felt they were "fulfilling the Biblical pattern...