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There are some intriguing 19th c. American comments on Spenser's Book V in the Variorum Spenser, although when I was doing a talk on this my focus was on the Giant with the Scales (a precurser to the French Revolution and socialism, said some). Anne Prescott. > I assume everybody knows that Hawthorne named his daughter Una and that > Melville wrote The Encantadas in Spenserian stanzas. > In the 70s my former student James Duban wrote an article on Hawthorne's > Gentle Boy and FQ Book VI "Hawthorne's Debt to Edmund Spenser and Charles > Chauncy in "The Gentle Boy" in Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal (1976) and > Melville's Pierre: or the Ambiguities and Book I entitled "The Spenserian > Maze of Melville's Pierre" in ESQ 23 (11977): 217 ff. He reports "A superb > article on Spenser and Melville's "The Piazza." in CLAJ for November 1976. > But I suppose you mean *really* early. > At 10:43 AM 3/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: >>Since the contiguity of Spenser's position in Ireland and American >>frontiersmanship has been raised, >>would anyone who can do so please tell me how (and where) Spenser was >> being >>read in early America? >> >>Julia Major >