Argus title : My lasting regrets at a friendship lost forever
Stephen Medcalf died on 17th September 2007 in Littlehampton. He was 70 years old, a scholar of classics and European literature and one of the finest teachers I have ever known. He lectured in English at the School of European Studies at Sussex University from 1963 to 2002.
I find it almost impossible to accept that Stephen is gone. He was so much larger than life that it seems inconceivable death could contain him.
In health, Stephen was a tireless walker and inveterate traveller to exotic places. One could imagine him in death, wandering out of heaven’s gates, jacket flapping and hair flying in the wind, off to explore other parts of the universe that he couldn’t quite reach when he lived in Lewes. Continue reading