Dear Anne,
Thank you very much for the postcard of "Where the Eagles soar." It was
nice to catch sight of you in DC; I trust the Helgerson lecture went well,
and the creme brulee. I was sprinting out to get to a job interview
downtown at 1:30 (with La Salle in Philidelphia). But it was great to talk
to Elizabeth Fowler and Teresa Krier and interesting to hear the
bureaucratic business at hand. Certainly a spectacular revamp of the
Newsletter!
To answer your card; I hope, logically enough, to turn the diss. into a
book. We'll see what Heather D. and Susanne W. have to say about its final
form. I have a couple of Shakespeare chapters at the end that might get
the chop in order to turn it into an all-Spenser monograph. susanne thinks
that would be a good idea, although I'm reluctant to toss out my reading of
*Venus and Adonis* in comparison to "Astrophel."
Building on the Arthur chapter you have (to which I've added more about the
historical catalog), I'll put in more discussion of Irish-related issues in
Book I; that way it has more of an original appearance than just another
account of Book V and the View. I also have a chapter on *Muiopotmos*,
currently part of a collection of essays from the Millenium conference that
Julian Lethbridge is trying to get published; but that might take years to
come out. I'll ask him soon what's become of it.
Any suggestions?
Noting books just out, I look forward to reading the *Edmund Spenser:
Essays on Culture and Allegory* volume as well... it looks like a nice
companion-piece to *Worldmaking Spenser*, and we'll say what Susanne W. has
to say about Arthur.
Best, Thomas
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