A memorial tribute for the late Edward Tayler, Columbia's great Renaissance man (and my mentor), on March 15, 2019, a Friday, at 3 PM in the rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia campus.
Ted taught Shakespeare, Milton, Elizabethan and seventeenth-century poetry and changed minds, if not lives, in his brilliant seminars and lectures.
He was quite a fellow, compact (5'4), agile (a varsity wrestler as an undergraduate at Amherst), witty and quick on his feet, and he believed that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide everything in two and those that don't.
Read more about him here