Look also for a couple of essays by Ken Gross and Jeff Dolven on the
Spenserian stanza in Spenser Studies, now in proof-reading stage. Anne
(Prescott)
> Dear All,
>
> Apologies for yet another blip from me, but I wanted to remind you about
> the upcoming deadline for the Spenserian Stanza Competition (25 March),
> jointly sponsored by The Spenser Review and the Edmund Spenser Home Page.
> We have received quite a few entries so far, but would much more welcome a
> heavy, gleaming haul; so, if you feel disposed, please remind your able
> students to give it an hour and let the Nile do its generative work in
> their slick and slimy fantasies. Point them to
> http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/stanza and feel free to use the
> hortatory stanza below for prodding.
>
> Lo I the man, that sometime bid you mask,
> To win a prize, in old stanzaic weeds;
> Am now enforced to urge again my task,
> To please my Muse (that nought but Spenser reads),
> And bid you versify before all deeds
> That otherwise to weary students long.
> Sleep not in silence: as the Muse areeds,
> Compose, and blazon you amongst the throng:
> Praise, glory, guerdon greets the bold adventuring song.
>
> Or forgettable words to that effect.
>
> az
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