And look for the essay version in a forthcoming volume (16, I think) of
Spenser Studies. Anne Prescott.
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Carol V. Kaske wrote:
> On the topic of Spenser's reading, see Lee Piepho's exciting discovery of
> "the only extant ones /books/ known to have been owned by him" recorded in
> a letter in TLS January 5, 2001, page 15. I'll stick my neck out
> again: Secundus's Epithalamion seems to have influenced that of Spenser,
> being even more racy.
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