Yet once more...
I recalled that Gordon Teskey once told me his teacher William
Blissett had long ago been collecting materials about Spenser and
modern poets. He wrote to English, Canadian, and American poets
asking about Spenser's influence on their works. Checking online, I
found a listing for a special collection at the University of Toronto
Library, the "Blissett Collection," which contains all of the
correspondence with poets between1953 and 1984 (including letters from
Louise Bogan, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, and even
John Masefield.) Here's a link to the catalog entry, with the names
of the poets he wrote to:
http://library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/blissett89.pdf
I remember corresponding with Blissett myself a number of years ago,
at a point when he had more or less given up the thought of writing
this material up.
And I'm SURE that Merrill's Changing Light at Sandover has some
Spenser woven into it.
Ken
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