An Acre in the Seed
The sudden death of THEODORE SPENCER in his forty-sixth year came as a shock to all who knew him as poet, teacher, and scholar. Boylston Professor at Harvard and author of three volumes of verse and of a well-regarded study of Shakespeare, Ted Spencer was a generous and encouraging force in contemporary letters. W. H. Auden spoke for us all in a memorable letter to the New York Times: ”I have not only lost a friend. I have lost a trusted and not easily replaceable literary confessor.”