On 12 Nov 2000, at 6:49, Sharon-zisser Shirle wrote:
> Thank you, Professor Goldshalk; I couldn't agree more about the
> Spensarianness of the oral/aural modulation of the poem's moment of
> concluding to its time for understanding (in the ear, as you say,
> prototype of all musical instruments which dynamize vibrations and breaths
> turning them into sonorities echoing with origin). Spenser was in very
> good oral/aural company. Among many relevant citations, one of my
> favourites is Henry Cosntable's "the voyce is made the eare for to reioce
> /And your ear gives pleasure to my voyce" (*Diana*, 1594, sonnet 1).
One should be careful of precipitous thanks. Prof. Godshalk (not
Goldshalk) was indulging in his own irony.
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