On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 [log in to unmask] wrote, inter alia,
> Against this backdrop, what was it that drove Spenser to develop his
> artificially archaic language -- 'no language,' according to Jonson?
Well, of course, W. F. Bolton links Spenser's archaism to his commitment
to the Pleiade programme (_A Living Language_, 1982; I think chapter 7).
Jameela
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