I doubt it has a list -- coverage of that sort doesn't seem like the sort of
thing the book is interested in -- but you might have a look at Robert
Matz's Defending Literature in Early Modern England, or at least his
footnotes.
Best,
Chris Warley
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>Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:03:32 -0700
>From: "Peter C. Herman" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: new (tiny) contribution to reception history of SC
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>David's post is very timely for me, as I'm about to start in on a review
>essay for undergraduates on early modern defenses of poetry. While I had
>intended to restrict myself to the standard works (Sidney, Puttenham,
>Gascoigne, etc.), I wonder if there are more treatises out there like
>Scott's? Is there a list somewhere of unpublished writings on poetry? Has
>anyone done a dissertation on them, if they exist?
>
>Just wondering,
>
>Peter C. Herman
>
>At 05:49 PM 10/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>Stanley Wells, "By the Placing of His Words," TLS 5243 (26 Sept. 2003):
14-15.
>>
>>Wells describes a manuscript treatise by William Scott entitled "The
Model
>>of Poesy or the Art of Poesy drawn into a short or summary discourse"
(c.
>>1600). "Perhaps of greatest interest to modern readers are a number of
>>previously unrecorded allusions to the drama, and especially to
>>Shakespeare." The document is in private and anonymous hands, but
Wells
>>quotes from bits and pieces. The important bit, for our purposes, is the
>>following. Spenser's SC, says Scott, is a species of "low comedy" and
>>"imitates the ancients so well that I know not if he comes behind for any
>>apt invention; only for his affecting old words and phrases" (qtd. on p.
>>14; spelling is modernized).
>>
>>This was Sidney's complaint, and Scott may have picked it up from the
>>Apologie (which he quotes "frequently"). So, in one sense, there's
nothing
>>new here. On the other hand, electrons are cheap, and it's a complaint
that
>>one hears with increasing frequency as the century unfolds.
>>
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