I assume everybody knows that Hawthorne named his daughter Una and that
Melville wrote The Encantadas in Spenserian stanzas.
In the 70s my former student James Duban wrote an article on Hawthorne's
Gentle Boy and FQ Book VI "Hawthorne's Debt to Edmund Spenser and Charles
Chauncy in "The Gentle Boy" in Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal (1976) and
Melville's Pierre: or the Ambiguities and Book I entitled "The Spenserian
Maze of Melville's Pierre" in ESQ 23 (11977): 217 ff. He reports "A superb
article on Spenser and Melville's "The Piazza." in CLAJ for November 1976.
But I suppose you mean *really* early.
At 10:43 AM 3/20/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Since the contiguity of Spenser's position in Ireland and American
>frontiersmanship has been raised,
>would anyone who can do so please tell me how (and where) Spenser was being
>read in early America?
>
>Julia Major
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