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But I did mean to suggest just that. _____ David Lee Miller Department of English 543 Boonesboro Ave University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40508 Lexington, KY 40506-0027 (859) 252-3680 (859) 257-6965 FAX 323-1072 -----Original Message----- From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:55 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: lxxv I didn't mean to suggest that the irrelevance of _differance_ to Spenser's aesthetics was a problem at all; except for people who claim the relevance of _differance_ to Spenser's aesthetics. J.D. Fleming On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:05:43 -0500 [log in to unmask] wrote: > --But the problem with "anticipated-but-deferred wholeness" > (_differance_) is that it is inconsistent with Spenser's aesthetic > Neoplatonism.-- > > Yes, that's the problem. But it isn't just our problem, it was Spenser's, > too, and he has an amazing facility for allowing such problems to play > unresolved in his verse. Whatever beliefs Spenser held, he seems to have > held them differently, or with a difference, when writing. For a poet who > manages at times to sound defensive, he wrote remarkably undefended poetry, > so permeable to contradiction that when (since you spoke of the > Epithalamion) he gives us a portrait of his bride, he compares her effect > on the beholder to Medusa's. > > > _____ > > David Lee Miller > > Department of English 543 Boonesboro Ave > University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40508 > Lexington, KY 40506-0027 (859) 252-3680 > (859) 257-6965 > FAX 323-1072 Dr. James Dougal Fleming, Assistant Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, (604) 291-4713 Laissez parler les faits.