There was, you may remember, a roundtable that the ISS sponsored at
the 2011 MLA, organized by Jeff Dolven -- "Spenser, the poet's poet,"
which took up many of these issues about Spenserian inheritance.  You
can find abstracts in the Spenser Review, I'm sure.

Ken

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:54 AM,  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Beth (and all),
>
> Did you ever read Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books?  I think her
> 'speculative' fiction (s-f and fantasy) bears deep affinities with
> Spenser's, but she is too 'strong,' in Bloom's sense of the word, to borrow
> trappings from Faeryland.  (She does, however, pay homage to Virgil in
> Lavinia, while dwelling on the essential character that Virgil left out of
> his epic.)  On a deep level there may be something Spenserian about her epic
> work of cultural anthropology, Always Coming Home, which imagines a distant
> sustainable future California resembling the tribal cultures that worked the
> land there before the coming of Spanish missionaries and other settlers.
>
> Among the Elizabethan / Jacobean poets after Spenser, Thomas Campion never
> gets enough attention, and his debts to Sidney and Spenser are considerable.
>  Has anyone studied his Latin poem?  I no longer have a copy of Campion's
> poems -- maybe it went to Beth with other books -- and I can't recall the
> poem's title, but I remember thinking it was imitative of the philosophical
> / mythological aspect of FQ.
>
> Spenser was, of course, the grand-daddy of the 'line of vision' in modern
> English poetry.  In American poetry the line from Stevens to James Merrill
> and John Hollander surely owes a great deal to Spenser's example, although
> the influence may not be traceable in the form of allusions. I find
> Foucault's theory of distinct epistemes very useful, and Spenser's is set
> apart from ours, in 'the world we have lost.'  Which gives it value of a
> certain kind, but not the kind that can animate vital poetry on the literal
> level.
>
> Cheers, Jon Q.
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Quitslund, Beth" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Mon, March 19, 2012 7:21:30 AM
>
> Subject: Re: SIDNEY-SPENSER: CFP: Panel on Spenser's poetic influence at
> SCSC 2012
>
> Hi Anne (and all),
>
> I don't know if the L. Sprague de Camp novel is well known, but I do know
> that it is the first place I heard of The Faerie Queene. (Sorry, Jon!) It
> gets all mixed up with Ariosto there. I can't say, from this distance of
> time, whether it is any good, but I do know that it was fascinating to a
> 10-year-old.
>
> Clearly my parents should have been more cautious about what they let me get
> my hands on.
>
> cheers,
> Beth
>
> Sent from my boring Android phone
>
> Anne Prescott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi, Scott (and all). This is a terrific idea, and one that interests us at
> Spenser Studies, where we have been collecting some such material. As for
> me, aside from a friendly acquaintance, David Slavitt, who did a parodic
> version of the opening, I'm not going to send you anything. What I am going
> to do is read a novel by L. Sprague de Camp that I never read in my sci fi
> days--it's a trilogy and the middle book is laid in Spenser's Fairyland.
> Dolon figures. So do Amoret and Britomart. Is this novel widely known? All
> best, Annd.
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Scott Lucas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Julia Griffin, who has put out a CFP for a panel on C.S. Lewis and Spenser
>> already for SCSC, would also like to propose a panel on the wider reception
>> of Spenser from his own time to the present.  Here is the write up:
>>
>>
>> Session CFP for the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, October
>> 25th-28th in Cincinnati, OH
>>
>> “Gentle Spirit”?: Spenser’s Poetic Influence
>>
>>
>>
>> The work of Spenser, and the idea of him, have inspired poets since the
>> late sixteenth century.  His recognized poetic descendants include both the
>> obscure, such as Giles and Phineas Fletcher, and the very great: John
>> Milton, John Keats.  But Spenser has not been submissively admired.
>> Generations of poets have been attracted to his creative world – his
>> language, his challenging stanzaic forms, his allegory – but at the same
>> time critical of it: from Philip Sidney’s doubts about The Shepheardes
>> Calender to William Hazlitt’s dismissal of the allegory in The Faerie
>> Queene, part of the response to Spenser has been vigorous disagreement, or,
>> in Harold Bloom’s terms, “misreading”.  This panel aims to consider
>> Spenser’s restless poetic legacy.  Questions might include: Spenser and the
>> idea of English epic; the history of the Spenserian stanza; particular poets
>> and their engagement with Spenser; and whether any poets writing today show
>> any signs of Spenserian influence.  Is Spenser, once called “the poets’
>> poet”, still a living poetic force?
>>
>>
>>
>> Please send abstracts (no more than 250 words) by April 4th to
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope you'll consider proposing something on this very interesting
>> topic!  Any solid proposals that Julia receives that she cannot include on
>> her panels she will pass on to me, and I will be happy to assign them to
>> panels of my own making composed of independent paper-proposal submissions.
>>
>> Remember, abstracts on any and all topics related to Tudor and early
>> Stuart literature and culture are welcome for the English-literature track
>> of SCSC, so please send your proposals in!  For more information, just visit
>> www.sixteenthcentury.org .  The deadline for proposals is April 15.
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> Scott Lucas
>> English-literature Track Coordinator
>> Sixteenth Century Society Conference 2012
>>
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