Hello ... continuing on the Irish front, see also the article on Spenser and Louis MacNeice in Lethbridge (ed) *Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions.*
Colm Toibin in his essay "The Dark Sixteenth-Century" in *Dublin Review* 43 (summer 2011) pp. 50-53 discusses Spenser' influence (incl Mutability Cantos) on Thomas Kinsella's "Another September".
Toibin has a terrific historical acumen --his father was a local historian and helped to create the castle museum in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, where he comes from. Toibin also very interested in the Spenser and Lodowick Bryskett connections with Enniscorthy, which led him, I think, to write that essay. Kinsella resided in Enniscorthy when he wrote the poem.
Regards, --Tom
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I'm so glad you're onto this, Anne. There are wonderful isolated pieces on Spenser's presence in the literary tradition--most recently, Jane Grogan's lovely essay, in the volume she edited on the Mutabilitie Cantos, on Yeats and Heaney. But there's no sustained, comprehensive treatment of Spenser's afterlife in English and American literature. It's a rich vein, probably unmined so far because to write the book one would have to know *so* much.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Anne Prescott <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Just brilliant. I'm collecting more stuff, if mostly mentally so far, on modern poets and Spenser. Suggestions welcome! (Yes, Linda Gregerson, and of course Jeff Dolven, and Clare Kinney's immortal parody, and there's much more.) This isn't explicitly Spenser, but it's sure close or at least relatable. Anything in the lit. crit. on it?
I'm going over the proofs of the 4th Norton Spenser, more slowly than I'd wish, and not surprised to see that Andrew H. has already caught some--and I've caught more--Spencers and promoted them to Spensers.
Thanks again, David. Truly, truly moving. Anne.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 5:08 PM, David Miller <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Glowing holiday wishes to you and Andrew, Beth, and to all Spenserians everywhere.
It's a fine poem, isn't it? Early Rich, when she's still quite formal.
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Thanks you, David—I didn’t know this one and am glad to now.
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Adrienne Rich, "The Knight" (1957)
A knight rides into the noon,
and his helmet points to the sun,
and a thousand splintered suns
are the gaiety of his mail.
The soles of his feet glitter
and his palms flash in reply,
and under his crackling banner
he rides like a ship in sail.
A knight rides into the noon,
and only his eye is living,
a lump of bitter jelly
set in a metal mask,
betraying rags and tatters
that cling to the flesh beneath
and wear his nerves to ribbons
under the radiant casque.
Who will unhorse this rider
and free him from between
the walls of iron, the emblems
crushing his chest with their weight?
Will they defeat him gently,
or leave him hurled on the green,
his rags and wounds still hidden
under the great breastplate?
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