Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: [Timothy Hemming's] special subject on the Tristan

theme was an imaginative and highly popular enterprise that involved material drawn from a range of literatures and cultural forms, and was punctuated annually by a minibus trip to Tintagel with himself at the wheel.

Otherwise, besides the introductory courses on Medieval French, he contributed effectively to the department's first-year poetry unit, helping to produce a much-needed course anthology which sold widely outside Bristol, while a signal achievement was his doctoral supervision of Professor Alison Adams, whose subsequent career in Glasgow University has marked her as one of Europe's leading contributors to emblem studies.

from University of Bristol: Timothy Hemming, 1934-2011

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