About Verdel Kolve
Lived 1934 – 2022 (aged 88). Verdel Kolve was a writer, medievalist and philologist.
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. 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.
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". In 1968 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Verdel died on November 5, 2022, at the age of 88.
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American literary scholar
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Verdel Kolve was born on 18 January 1934.
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Verdel Kolve was a writer, medievalist and philologist.
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