And very valuable and pioneering is his work on Spenser and Shakespeare
generally, incl a nice piece in SpEnc.
Fond regards, --Tom
On 1/9/09 11:43 AM, "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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