More notes on Burton Watson, the great translator and scholar, who just passed away.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=burton-dewitt-watson&pid=185123075&
http://www.cupblog.org/?p=20964
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=32126
I myself only spoke to him once. But I have enjoyed his work tremendously over the years, and also used it in teaching. It shines with the same generosity that came across in his voice that one time.
— Magnus Fiskesjö <nf42@cornell.edu>