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and socio-meteorology or socio-geology (socio-seismology), perhaps? I was immediately struck with the thought that in Book I, canto xi, when Spenser's attention is on the beast of beasts, the dragon, more prevalent than beast similes are comparisons of the creature to forces of the natural landscape, winds, waves, storms, earthquakes. Ken On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Harry Berger Jr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Epic simile as sociobiology. What a great idea! If Jim had told me that when I was working on Sp's epic similes (in the early 1950s?) it might have changed my life. > > On Mar 3, 2012, at 8:56 AM, James C. Nohrnberg wrote: > >> Yes, epic simile as sociobiology. >> >> [log in to unmask] >> James Nohrnberg >> Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219 >> Univ. of Virginia >> P.O Box 400121 >> Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121