Anne Hyde Greet

Anne Hyde Greet passed away April 23, 2023, in Santa Barbara, California. She was born June 13, 1928, in New York City, to William Cabell Greet and Katherine Hyde Greet. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband John E. Cushing, second husband John W. Cotton, and her aunt Eleanor Greet Cotton.

Anne received her B.A. in Greek from Bryn Maw, her M.A. in English from Columbia and in French from the University of Colorado, as well as her Ph.D. in French. She held a scholarship in Greek at Oxford, a Fulbright grant at the University of Padua, and studied at the Middleburg School of French in Paris as well as the University for Foreigners at Perugie. At the beginning of her career, she taught classics at the Chapin School in New York and French at the University of Colorado. She finished out her career as a professor of poetry and French at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she was named professor emeritus. The love of languages came from her father and her aunt, both professors of English.

She was soft-spoken, kind, generous and loving, and she will be greatly missed. Survivors include Cabell, Stephanie, Brooke and Reed Capshaw, John Cushing, Carolyn Fishel and Keith Cotton. We want to thank the staff and caretakers from Valle Verde in Santa Barbara.

From ” Jellyfish” in Anne’s book of poetry Musk Ox,

“Is there another such dance as mine?

I journey where the currents take me.

My only harbor, death.”