Re Epithalmion -- It took only seconds to see the importance of Kent
Hieatt's great discovery, but generations to reap the benefits of its
implications. He opened the door.
(I learned of it from Douglas Bush.) -- Jim N.
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:43:26 -0500
Kenneth Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It is a rare thing in English Renaissance scholarship to have
> recovered, in the later part of the 20th century, a crucial and
> previously un-noted source for so commented-upon a body of texts as
> Shakespeare's Sonnets, but Kent Hieatt did exactly that in his 1983
> PMLA article, "The Genesis of Shakespeare's Sonnets: Spenser's Ruines
> of Rome: By Bellay", a piece which argued in subtle detail, and
> entirely persuasively, for the strong influence of Spenser's early
> translations of Du Bellay's "Antiquitez de Rome" -- so obsessed with
> the depredations and wastes of time -- on Shakespeare's sonnet
> sequence. It changes the way one reads the poems. That is something
> worth remembering and honoring.
>
> Ken Gross
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