I ran across this lovely blog post after getting distracted by a LINGTYP thread on ideophones:
http://ideophone.org/farewell-mr-ideophone-william-j-samarin-1926-2020/
It turns out that William Samarin passed away just last year. Among many other works, mostly on African languages and ideophones, Samarin wrote a classic fieldwork manual. But this post by Mark Dingemanse reveals the Samarin the person, and perhaps a bit of Samarin the Poet.
I won’t take any quotes out of context here, but just encourage you to take a look.
