In Response to: Preceptor Guy: Robert Kilburn Root
To call D.W. Robertson Jr. “terrifying” seems an error. He was my thesis adviser and always welcomed me into his office in McCosh. He was very chatty, and I mostly remember him complaining that since two of his advisees were writing on Blake, he would have to read some of that stuff.
I laugh even now to consider his gentle grumbling on the subject of reading anything written after 1400. He was a sweet man.