That was a long time ago and reminds me of my first encounter with Spenser in Wolfgang Clemens’ lecture class in Munich in 1958. My English was not very good at that time—I was mainly in Altphilologie—and I remember spellings like ‘sitte’ that gave me trouble. As I write this, it occurs to me that the easy trail from ‘sitte’ to ‘sit’ was blocked by the fact that in German ‘Sitte’ is a very big world.
I also remember a visit by Angus Fletcher to the University of Toronto, when I was there in the sixties. He was an object of awe.
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On 12/11/16, 1:58 PM, "Sidney-Spenser Discussion List on behalf of Harry Berger Jr" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
I remember sitting across the table from Angus in John Pope’s Spenser class at Yale, sometime in the early 1950s, I guess. Angus always wore sleeveless sweaters and when I asked him about it he said it was to keep his arms cool.
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