The essay was in print a year ago (July 1999). And before July 1999, the
essay was known to you, and known by you to have been making its way into
print.
Shirley Sharon-Zisser
At 07:26 20/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>George Klawitter
>St. Edward's University
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