I am sorry to see that Barnfield is at the bottom of some controversy on
the Spenser list serve. I would like to explain the progress of the
Barnfield volume of essays that Kenneth Borris (McGill Univ) and I have
edited for Susquehanna University Press. There are fifteen essays in the
book, and we hope that the book will appear this coming spring. In a long
introduction, Professor Borris covers the history of Barnfield criticism,
but the introduction does not deal, could not deal, with Barnfield essays
that were not already in print when the introduction was written a year ago.
On another matter, as the first poet (the poem "Cynthia") to write using the
Spenserian stanza after Spenser himself, Barnfield is obviously a disciple.
Happily we have in the volume an essay by Anne Lake Prescott addressing
Spenser and Barnfield.
George Klawitter
St. Edward's University
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