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• W191101443 abstract "We are here today to celebrate the life of Harry Meserole, Distinguished Professor of English and Abell Professor of Liberal Arts emeritus. We knew Harry as a loved one, friend, colleague, teacher, mentor, orchid breeder, dog lover, Dairy Queen habitue, and/or Texas lottery devotee. I shall speak of the Harry I knew-a role model, colleague, collaborator, and-above all-friend. Harry was what we once called a gentleman-scholar and a scholar-teacher; indeed, I like to think of him as a scholar's scholar and a bibliographer's bibliographer. His passion for accuracy in the smallest detail and his unselfish delight in sharing his immense learning set a standard that his colleagues and students aspired to but never attained. Let me explain why I called Harry a scholar's scholar. As editor and bibliographer, the majority of Harry's publications were designed to serve the profession of English at large rather than merely advance his career. His American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (which went through 4 editions between 1968 and 1985 and is still in-print) remains the standard edition. Leo Lemay (the reigning Colonial American literature scholar), in assessing the importance of the edition, asserted that only two other scholars done as much original work in seventeenth-century American poetry as Harry Meserole. Outside of the field of early American literature, Harry was best known in the profession as a bibliographer. Indeed, as I noted earlier he was a bibliographer's bibliographer; that is, he articulated bibliographical principles and practices that were widely emulated, and he set standards that many tried vainly to meet. Anyone who ever visited his office would immediately realize that Harry was a bibliographer: his desk was piled high with stacks of notecards, letters, publishers' catalogs, page proofs, and sheets filled with copious notes. To the uninitiated, these teetering stacks seemed a meaningless jumble of miscellaneous pieces of paper, but Harry knew precisely where every note, letter, or citation resided in each stack. From 1957 to 1975, Harry edited the MLA International Bibliography, the indispensable annual bibliography of scholarship published worldwide (in more than 100 languages) on all modern languages and literatures, linguistics, and folklore. As you might imagine, editing this protean work required someone who commanded a broad and deep knowledge of languages and literatures, possessed a prodigious memory, and required little sleep. Characteristically, Harry reorganized the rather haphazard classification system he inherited, dramatically expanded the coverage, and late in his tenure initiated the computerization of the Bibliography. (I shall have more to say about Harry and computers in a moment.) The result was a vastly improved essential and enduring resource for researchers worldwide. The importance of Harry's herculean contribution to this indispensable work becomes clearer when we recall that during his editorship the Bibliography was based on contributions by a worldwide network of scholars, many of whom volunteered out of respect for Harry. There was only one paid contributor-Priscilla Letterman, his assistant. Harry's editorship of the Bibliography led to his participation in one of his least-known but nonetheless important publications: the second edition of The MLA Style Sheet, a predecessor of the MLA Handbook, the style bible for those who publish on literary topics and for two generations of freshmen composition students. After relinquishing the editorship of the MLA International Bibliography, Harry was recruited as editor of the annual World Shakespeare Bibliography, which he edited from 1976 to 1992. Once again, he immediately set about reorganizing the bibliography and expanding its scope. And, once again he brought a bibliography into the computer age by working with programmers to design a program and record structure that has migrated through several platforms and still serves as the cyberinfracture of the award-winning World Shakespeare Bibliography Online. …" @default.
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• W191101443 title "Harrison T. Meserole: 25 July 1921-20 December 2006: In Memoriam" @default.
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