You'll have to forgive me for bothering you all, since I'm no Spenser
scholar. But I've valued your list for many years.
SC has been dear to my heart for a long time, and I have treasured memories
of the first edition in the BM library - which had to suffice until I
managed to obtain a facsimile.
You'll think me naive, I know. But the various spellings of Piers and
Cuddie in the "October" episode were perpetuated through the editions.
Should they not dive us a clue to the people they represented. For example,
Pires is Edmund Spenser, but Piers is Robert Sidney? Etc......?
Was not SC the work of a group of John Dee's scholars? Then E.K. might be
Dee's E.K.
Who must stay and write epic verse, and who must travel to Italy? I know
the answer to that - but E.K. suggests that we should be able to interpret
the flights of birds, which we find in many of the illustrations, and I have
no idea how. Does anyone?
Andy Green
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