Noel Stock, poet, writer, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Toledo, died in his sleep on 16 November 2013; he was 84 years old. Born in Melbourne, Australia on 29 May 1929, he became interested in poetry at an early age, and numerous of his poems were published in various literary and poetry magazines in the U.S., England and Australia between 1950 and 1967. From 1949 to 1955 he worked in the News Department of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In the late 1950s he moved to Europe and lived for much of the period from 1959 to 1969 at Brunnenburg, a castle in the Italian Tyrol belonging to Mary de Rachewiltz, daughter of the modern American poet Ezra Pound. He met Pound in the summer of 1959, having corresponded regularly with him beginning in 1953. With Pound, he translated some ancient Egyptian love poems, which were published in 1962 by New Directions (New York) as Love Poems of Ancient Egypt. There have since been several translations and editions of the book. He published scholarly works on Pound and modern poetry, including Poet in Exile (Manchester University Press, 1964 and Barnes and Noble, New York, 1964), Reading the Cantos (Pantheon Books, New York, 1966 and Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1967), and The Life of Ezra Pound (Pantheon Books, New York, 1970 and Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1970). All these books were widely reviewed; and translations and expanded editions of the Life appeared in 1974, 1982 and 1989. His Ezra Pound'™s Pennsylvania was published by the Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries in 1976. He also edited and contributed to a number of books and periodicals between 1953 and 1980, and he wrote the biographical essay on Pound in the fifteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1974). In addition, he published several volumes of aphorisms on culture and society in the 1980s and '˜90s. He was a Visiting Professor of English at the University of Toledo from 1969 to 1971, and became Professor of English there in 1971. He retired in 1995, at which time the rank of professor emeritus was conferred upon him. In addition to teaching various graduate and undergraduate courses, he gave lectures and conducted seminars of the subjects of Modernism, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. He continued to write and publish aphorisms and poetry after he retired. Focusing on Roman Catholic themes, his resent books of poetry include Lives of the Saints (2003), Deo Gratias (2005), Words for the Christian Year (2007), Babylon Rebuilt (2008), and Things Hidden from the Wise (2010). A memorial mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, January 24th at St. Joseph'™s Church (on the corner of Locust and Erie Sts., just north of downtown). Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Eggleston Meinert & Pavley Funeral Homes of Oregon, Ohio. Visitation: None Services: Friday, January 24, 2014 at St. Joseph Catholic Church Locust & Erie Streets Toledo, Ohio