Verdel Kolve Explained

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.

Life and career

Verdel was born in Wisconsin in 1934 to Amos and Gunda Kolve. He had a younger sister, Lois.^[1] 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.^[2]

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]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Verdel A Kolve in the 1940 Census Ancestry . www.ancestry.com . 15 October 2018 . en.
2. Web site: V. A. Kolve Honorary Fellow St Edmund Hall . St Edmund Hall . 15 October 2018.
3. Thomas . R. George . Reviews . The Review of English Studies . 77 . 15 October 2018 . 76–77 . en . 10.1093/res/XX.77.76 . 1969.
4. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Verdel A. Kolve . www.gf.org . 15 October 2018.
5. Web site: Professor Verdel "Del" Kolve (1934–2022) . UCLA . 13 October 2024 . 21 November 2022.
6. Web site: Verdel A. Kolve . Legacy . 13 October 2024.