History:Kemp Malone
Kemp Malone (March 14, 1889 in Minter City, Mississippi – October 13, 1971) was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer who was lecturer and then professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1924 to 1956.
Born in an academic family, Kemp Malone graduated from Emory College as it then was in 1907, with the ambition of mastering all the languages that impinged upon the development of Middle English. He spent several years in Germany, Denmark and Iceland. When World War I broke out he served two years in the United States Army and was discharged with the rank of Captain.
Malone served as President of the Modern Language Association, and other philological associationsCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag, Cædmon and Beowulf (he edited a facsimile of the Thorkelin transcripts, 1951), Deor - all were subjects among his hundreds of publications. He edited and translated a large corpus of medieval poetry: Widsith from the Exeter Book (1936). A sample of his production is a 1941 published book about old English poems, that were transferred into modern English alliterative verse.[1]
Rare books from his library, donated 1971 to Emory University, are part of the Ancient and Medieval History (MARBL) collection, held at Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University Libraries. The Kemp Malone library content were fully registered under Call number Z997.M35.[2]
His literary heritage (30 document boxes) were deposited in 1983 at Johns Hopkins University.[3]
The historian and biographer Dumas Malone is his younger brother.
References
- ↑ Malone, Kemp (1941), Ten Old English Poems put into Modern English alliterative verse, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, pp. 49
- ↑ Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University Libraries, Call number Z997.M35, Kemp Malone Memorial Library, archived from the original on 2015-07-21, https://web.archive.org/web/20150721025422/http://guides.main.library.emory.edu/c.php?g=50193&p=324586, retrieved 2015-07-15
- ↑ Kemp Malone Papers Ms. 129. Special Collections, Milton S. Eisenhower Library. Johns Hopkins University (1987), Malone (Kemp) 1889-1971. Papers (1913-1975). Ms. 129, http://old.library.jhu.edu/se/util/display_mod.cfm?MODULE=/se-server/mod/modules/semod_printpage/mod_default.cfm&PageURL=/collections/specialcollections/manuscripts/msregisters/ms129.html&VersionObject=13673&Template=13&PageStyleSheet=79317&pdfExport=NO, retrieved 2015-07-15
Further reading
- Norman E. Eliason: Kemp Malone: 14 March 1889–13 October 1971. American Speech, volume 44, no. 3 (fall, 1969), pp. 163–165 (JSTOR)
- Richard Macksey: Obituary: Kemp Malone: 1889–1971. MLN, volume 6, no. 6, Comparative Literature (Dec., 1971), p. 760 (JSTOR)
- Thomas Pyles: Kemp Malone. Language, volume 48, no. 2 (June, 1972), pp. 499-505 (JSTOR)
- R. W. Zandvoort: In Memoriam Kemp Malone. English Studies 53 (1972), pp. 87-88
- Albert C. Baugh, Morton W. Bloomfield, Francis P. Magoun: Kemp Malone. Speculum 47 (1972), pp. 601-03.
External links
- Sources for his bibliography
- Kemp Malone at mswritersandmusicians.com
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