Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | Kirk, Russell - William F. Buckley, Jr. (essay date 30 May 1994)

William F. Buckley, Jr. (essay date 30 May 1994)

SOURCE: Buckley, William F., Jr. “Russell Kirk, RIP.” National Review 46, no. 10 (30 May 1994): 19-20.

[In the following essay, Buckley laments the passing of his friend and longtime National Review columnist, relating some personal anecdotes and saluting Kirk's accomplishment as a writer.]

In the next issue of National Review we will pay appropriate tribute to a figure whose death on April 29 left the conservative community desolate. He was omnipresent, coming at us from every direction. He wrote a seminal book and, for many years, a syndicated column. He lectured, gave speeches, wrote ghost stories and histories, and edited anthologies. Through it all he maintained a special presence as ever so faintly bohemian, the orthodox husband of a beautiful wife, father of four daughters, obdurately professorial in demeanor, yet those who noticed never needed to wait too long...

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