Poetic Obituaries: "Always something of a quiet and tenacious contrarian,

he began his scholarly career with a book on the poet Ezra Pound, this written in England against the advice of older scholars who informed him that Pound was inappropriate as an academic subject," [William] Chace said of [George] Dekker's first book, Sailing After Knowledge: The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1963). "He ended his career by crafting a memoir of his days fighting fires in the Northern California woods."

In between were other books: James Fenimore Cooper the Novelist (1967), Coleridge and the Literature of Sensibility (1978), The American Historical Romance (1987) and The Fictions of Romantic Tourism: Radcliffe, Scott and Mary Shelley (2005).

from Stanford University News: George Dekker, scholar of British and American literature, dies at 75

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