The Spenser Society also remains the standard edition for most of the works
of George Wither. As Anne says, they are very nice volumes but also
extremely useful. I'd be curious to know more about this Society too, though.
Hannibal
At 10:50 AM 4/28/05 -0400, you wrote:
>All I know is that they published a whole lot of texts, including a number
>by John Taylor the Waterpoet, as I recall. I have the impression that this
>was one of those gentlemanly amateur scholarly enterprises the Victorians
>enjoyed rather than anything very Spenser-specific or devoted to archival
>research per se. Some of the volumes were reissued (by Burt Franklin?) in
>the last century, and very handsome they are. Anne P.
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I wonder if any of you know anything about another Spenser Society that
> > was apparently active in the latter portion of the 19th century. I've
> > found a facsimile/reprint of Timothy Kendall, _Flovvres of Epigrammes_,
> > which they produced; and I wonder who "they" were. Are?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Leigh Harrison
> >
Hannibal Hamlin
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