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MILESTONES: Goodbye to pitcher Warren Spahn and literary critic Hugh Kenner...
DIED. HUGH KENNER, 80, scholar and critic who was a leading authority on such standard-bearers of literary modernism as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Ezra Pound; after suffering from heart problems; in Athens, Ga. The author of 25 books (and a contributor to 200), Kenner avoided the jargon of academia in favor of an often witty, idiosyncratic style. He described his 1971 book, The Pound Era, on the poet's contribution to the birth of modernism, as "an X-ray moving picture of how our epoch was extricated from the fin de siecle...
...Crimson Arts Critic Patrick D. Blanchfield can be reached at blanchf@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson Arts Critic Eugenia B. Schraa can be reached at schraa@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson Arts Critic Alexandra D. Hoffer can be reached at hoffer@fas.harvard.edu...