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Hello, Was Spenser a social climber? If you think he was, do you think this manifested itself in any way in his poetry? Thanks, Imogen Marcus On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Arlen Nydam <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Don't forget about archive.org's Texts section. Tons of out-of-copyright > books there, and new ones being added constantly. And if you download the > PDFs, they are searchable (though you may have to search for words like > "pafsion" and "fuperftition" to get accurate results). I have had problems > viewing them in Preview (a Mac PDF and image viewing program) but no > problems at all when using Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Pro. > > Google Books pdfs are, or were, searchable only online. Archive.org's are > more useful in this respect. > > > > On 6/27/08, anne prescott <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> I know that Joe Loewenstein had my 1609 Spenser scanned by his library so >> he and his gang could use it in collations for the new Oxford Spenser; I'm >> glad to have it so I can stroke it and smell the paper, but it's boringly >> clean and free of interesting annotations. I don't know if the library >> makes it available to others or not. Joe would know. But of course for >> anyone with access to EEBO and ECCO the top ten editions before 1800 are >> already online in some form. Maybe what we need digitalized are the >> Victorian ones with pictures. One thing to look up on ECCO (which is easier >> to do than EEBO because 18th c. type is so much easier to search) is book >> sale lists that include Spenser. Then you long for a time transporter to go >> back and buy them cheap. I do recommend ECCO (Eighteenth Century Catalogues >> [I think] Online) for Spenserians. You do a search for "Spenser" or "Sidney" >> and wonderful things turn up. On David's thoughts in his recent >> posting on paper and disks and what lasts etc. I was at a dinner party once >> long ago with a bunch of publishers because my late husband was in the >> publishing biz at one point and there was the then curator of rare books at >> the Morgan Library, who interrupted, laughing, to say that when the other >> guests' books were dust his would still be here, and they didn't disagree. >> Anne. >> PS: in case anyone is wondering, AMS Press tells me that yes, they are >> aware that Spenser Studies should do more with the Internet and they are >> trying to negotiate some way of posting back issues. Stay tuned. >> >> On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:09 PM, John Geraghty wrote: >> >> What would be the Top Ten Spenser editions or resources that should be >> online? >> >> I have the 1611 and 1679 Works (* >> http://www.johngeraghty.com/Literature/Texts/Spenser/*<http://www.johngeraghty.com/Literature/Texts/Spenser/>), >> and think I have a decent OCR for the concordance. >> >> If anyone has had any luck with OCR and 17th century texts, I'd >> appreciate hearing about it. >> >> Thanks for the link. >> >> -John >> >> *** F or who so list into the heauens looke,* >> >> * A nd search the courses of the rowling spheares,* >> >> * S hall find that from the point, where they first tooke* >> >> * T heir setting forth, in these few thousand yeares* >> >> * They all are wandred much; that plaine appeares.* >> >> * I s now hight vertue, and so vs'd of all:* >> >> * R ight now is wrong, and wrong that was is right,* >> >> * A s all things else in time are chaunged quight.* >> >> * N e wonder; for the heauens reuolution* >> >> * I s wandred farre from where it first was pight,* >> >> * A nd so doe make contrarie constitution* >> >> >> *finierat voces Polyhymnia: dicta probarunt* >> >> *Clioque et curvae scita Thalia lyrae.* >> >> *excipit Uranie: fecere silentia cunctae,* >> >> *et vox audiri nulla, nisi illa, potest.* >> >> *-FASTi Liber V***** >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [ >> mailto:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>] On >> Behalf Of Anne Prescott >> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:31 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: Upton's Spenser available for free download >> >> Thanks, David. Now where to I apply for a grant to pay for the toner, >> >> paper, and maybe new printer.? Great news, though, and cheaper than >> >> the original. I do recommend going on "addall.com" just to see the >> >> prices of early Spensers and be reminded of what's out there but >> >> unaffordable. Oh to be seriously rich! Anne. >> >> On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:57 PM, David Wilson-Okamura wrote: >> >> > on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=laNYAAAAMAAJ >> >> > >> >> > Searchable, too, subject to the limits of OCR technology, on which >> >> > see Anthony Grafton in the New Yorker last fall: http:// >> >> > www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton >> >> > >> >> > And what everyone needs, Aen. I-II in Spenserian stanzas: http:// >> >> > books.google.com/books?id=aGcCAAAAQAAJ >> >> > >> >> > What else is here? >> >> > >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > - >> >> > Dr. David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org >> >> > [log in to unmask] >> >> > English Department Virgil reception, discussion, >> >> > documents, &c >> >> > East Carolina University Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude >> >> > Fauchet >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > - >> >> >> >