Career
He was appointed Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1978 for services to literature. He edited nearly 60 anthologies of contemporary poetry and was himself a poet of considerable talent. The Sergeant archive was purchased by Hull University from his widow, Jean Sergeant, in 1998 and provides extensive coverage of the full range of his literary work.
Sergeant was the subject of a doctoral thesis by Bruce Meyer of McMaster University.
The Scotsman obituary of Muriel Spark, referring to her autobiography Curriculum Vitae, stated:.