I wasn't referring to Bryskett's "Colin" but to the general matter of
people thinking that Spenser wrote SC. A.P.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Peter Zenner wrote:
> Anne Prescott wrote:-
> >By now Spenser's
> >authorship was common knowledge, as witness the frequency with which
> >spenser is called "Colin." Wasn't the SC in the 1611 *Works*?
>
> But Anne -- as I wrote, the Colin in the Lodowick Bryskett poem
> cannot be Spenser because he did not accompany Sidney over
> the Alps. I know that, in his glosse for 'September', Spenser (O.K.,
> 'E. K.') explained that he was the author of the SC and that Harvey
> was Hobbinol -- but at what stage was that note added? After
> Marlowe had become a persona non grata?
>
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