On 10/2/09 9:46 AM, "Anne Prescott" <
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> I wish myself that Yale would do a new edition (and, yes, do a better
> job of binding). I find both Yale and McCabe admirable. As for the
> Norton, Hugh and I simply dropped the Fowre Hymnes, rightly or
> wrongly, and of course the matter in the notes had to go too. In the
> much-delayed new Norton Andrew Hadfield and I are adding the Ruines
> of Rome not as supergreat poetry but as feeding a current interest in
> empire etc. Nice and short, too. Suggestions for what needs glossing
> are welcome. Yes, we are now three years late. Stuff happened. Anne.
>
> On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:26 PM, JD Fleming wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all! JD Fleming
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>> Subject: Re: McCabe / Oram
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>> Carol Kaske gives good reasons for preferring McCabe's Penguin
>> edition. I haven't used either across the whole extent of the
>> shorter poems, but it's my impression that McCabe's apparatus of
>> introductions and notes is somewhat superior. Working recently on
>> the Fowre Hymnes , however, and consulting both editions, in the
>> Yale edition I found things of value in Einar Bjorvand's notes that
>> supplemented McCabe's. (And in Hugh Maclean's original Norton
>> Critical Ed. of 1968, there is matter in the notes that hasn't been
>> retained in either of the later editions.)
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Jon Quitslund
>>
>> -------------- Original message from JD Fleming <
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>> To all those who know: how does the Penguin edition of Spenser's
>> Shorter Poems,
>>> ed. McCabe, compare with the Yale, ed. Oram et al.?
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Dougal Fleming
>>> Associate Professor
>>> Department of English
>>> Simon Fraser University
>>>
>>> "to see what is questionable"
>>
>> --
>> James Dougal Fleming
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of English
>> Simon Fraser University
>>
>> "to see what is questionable"
