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That edition has lots of out-of-the-way gems that I would hope you would keep but just to mention three: the items by Coleridge and Woolf, romantic and modernist critiques of the poem, and the Harington quotation presented by Tom Roche. All three are immensely helpful with the poetics of allegory and symbol. Dick Hardin PS--Sure would like to have Hub.! -----Original Message----- From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Query from Hadfield and Prescott Dear List-- Andrew Hadfield and I have signed a contract to do a fourth edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Spenser and we seek your opinion on what Spenserian texts we might drop or add. Just TEXTS, not criticism (see below). Norton says that we are at the outside page limit so if we add we must also drop. If we add Virgil's Gnat, for example, we must drop the Bower of Bliss. Well, that's silly but you get the idea. We were thinking of dropping *Colin Clouts Come Home Again*, which for all its interest we do not think is much taught, and adding *Mother Hubberds Tale* because of its relevance to, among other topics, Renaissance anti-court satire, fable and allegory, and (even if the evidence is read cautiously) censorship. We might also add the *Ruines of Rome* because the text is brief and enables conversation on both *translation* and *translatio* as well as on the importance of ancient Rome--and by implication papal Rome--to early modern England. Are there other deletions and additions you would like? Feel free to write us off-list.Andrew's e-mail is [log in to unmask] Any thoughts would be welcome. We BEG you to send suggestions, if you have them, for dropping or adding critical essays ONLY off-list for obvious reasons of tact and prudence. Thanks for any thoughts, on- or off-list. Andrew H. and Anne P.