Poetic Obituaries: [Richard Helgerson] was a professor

of English at UC Santa Barbara, where he had taught since 1970.

Helgerson left an international reputation as one of the leading Renaissance scholars of his generation. He wrote six important books, including an edition and translation of the French Renaissance poet Joachim Du Bellay, and more than sixty articles and reviews, said his sister, Jan Ondeck, of Walnut Creek.

His most influential publications were "Self-Crowned Laureates," a major study defining the distinctively Renaissance career patterns of English writers Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, and "Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England."

from Pasadena Star-News: Helgerson, former visiting professor at Caltech, dies

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