On another matter. The 1651 Cottoni Posthuma, put together by James Howell, has a little essay on Valor pretty certainly by Donne that either Howell or Cotton or possibly Donne credits to Sidney and possibly ironically. I've been working on this stuff for an essay on Donne. Right after it is a poem to a wimpish lover telling him to keep trying, also credited to Sidney. The poem is pure Suckling/Carew, but amusing in a Cavalier way. It starts "Faint Amorist: what, do'st thou think / To tast Loves Honey, and not drink / One dram of Gall? or to devour / A world of sweet, and tast no sour?" And so forth. Not Sidney's style, not with exclamations such as "Nay, 'uds-foo,t" and so forth. Has anyone written on this? I'm not planning to, and my focus is on Donne, but I'm curious. Anne.
On Dec 1, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Ayesha Ramachandran wrote:
YAY for the Manchester Spenser! It's about time. I hope the re-issue will be affordable? Maybe even affordable enough for graduate students to purchase?
Ayesha Ramachandran
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5350
(631) 632-7628
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Hello -- Manchester University Press, specifically The Manchester Spenser,
now have copyright and will be re-issuing Skretkowicz's edition next year.
Skretkowicz's own monograph, *European Erotic Romance: Philhellene
Protestantism, Renaissance Translation and English Literary Politics* is due
out with TMS in the spring, along with Eric Klingelhofer's *Castles and
Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland* which includes chapter on
Kilcolman.
Sincerely, Thomas
On 12/1/08 5:34 PM, "Kate Mould" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Liz,
>
> A simple isbn search >019812743X will take you to BookFinder4u with links to
> online booksellers. It has an advanced search facility for titles no longer
> in print. A copy of Skretkowicz's Oxford edition hardly ever turns up,
> although it is listed by one or two suppliers. Our library copy went missing
> several years ago, and I rely on inter-library loans. Recently, Victor
> Skretkowicz kindly confirmed the current situation and market value -
> approximately $800 US - when I approached him with your question.
>
> Curiosity about Clarendon led me to OUP's archivist. As far as he could
> determine - more mystery - the print run for this edition and Robertson's
> was 1000, Ringler 2000. What a buy Dobell made when he paid 3 quid for a
> manuscript of the original Arcadia in 1906.
>
> Time for an Arcadia hypertext?
>
> Kate Mould
>
>
>
>
> On 2/12/08 1:46 AM, "Elizabeth Stein" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> This seems to be the most recent scholarly edition of the New Arcadia, but
>> careful search of every used and new bookstore I can find online has not
>> turned it up. Does anyone know why? It was issued by Clarendon Press in
>> 1987, but OUP.com doesn't have it, and I can't find that Clarendon has a
>> separate site. What edition, then, is currently used?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Liz Ghiselin Stein