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Log inUM scholar Hatlen, mentor to Stephen King, dies at 71
UM scholar Hatlen, mentor to Stephen King, dies at 71
by Outspoken on Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:31 am
UM scholar Hatlen, mentor to Stephen King, dies at 71
By Alicia Anstead
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
Burton Hatlen, a literary scholar whose subjects ranged from Shakespeare to Stephen King and whose teachings shaped the minds of four generations of students at the University of Maine, died Monday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He was 71.
The cause was pneumonia, said his family. Hatlen had undergone treatment for prostate cancer during the last decade.
Hatlen’s doctoral dissertation was on the 17th century English poet John Milton, but shortly after arriving in Orono in 1967 as an aspiring professor, he began working closely with Carroll Terrell, founder of the National Poetry Foundation and a noted Ezra Pound scholar. In close partnership with the UM English department, Terrell and Hatlen built the foundation into an internationally respected literary center for Pound studies as well as for modern and contemporary poetry. In 1991, Hatlen became director of the NPF.
Much of the organization’s reputation was built on the publication of two journals which Hatlen edited for many years: Paideuma, dedicated to Pound and later broadened to include British and American modernism, and Sagetrieb, which Hatlen founded in 1982 to explore the work of objectivist and contemporary poets such as William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen.
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By Alicia Anstead
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
Burton Hatlen, a literary scholar whose subjects ranged from Shakespeare to Stephen King and whose teachings shaped the minds of four generations of students at the University of Maine, died Monday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He was 71.
The cause was pneumonia, said his family. Hatlen had undergone treatment for prostate cancer during the last decade.
Hatlen’s doctoral dissertation was on the 17th century English poet John Milton, but shortly after arriving in Orono in 1967 as an aspiring professor, he began working closely with Carroll Terrell, founder of the National Poetry Foundation and a noted Ezra Pound scholar. In close partnership with the UM English department, Terrell and Hatlen built the foundation into an internationally respected literary center for Pound studies as well as for modern and contemporary poetry. In 1991, Hatlen became director of the NPF.
Much of the organization’s reputation was built on the publication of two journals which Hatlen edited for many years: Paideuma, dedicated to Pound and later broadened to include British and American modernism, and Sagetrieb, which Hatlen founded in 1982 to explore the work of objectivist and contemporary poets such as William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=159261&zoneid=500
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Plato (427-347 BC)
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