The first half is so over the top that I almost stopped reading, but I didn't -- in the second half he uses his own strengths to say something that in the light of his experience is worth saying. Germaine On 2019-05-12 11:48 a.m., Herron, Thomas wrote: Dear all, here in the last breath of this year's Kalamazoo (which went well, including many warm tributes to Bill Oram on his retirement), see below link to a purply prosed article in the recent *Chronicle*. The Faerie Queene turns up dramatically near the end. Many regards, --Tom https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190510-academes-extinction-event​ ps attendance was definitely down in #s at this year's Zoo. Thomas Herron Professor of English Department of English East Carolina University (252) 328-6413 Writer/Director, Centering Spenser: A Digital Resource for Kilcolman Castle http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/ ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the SIDNEY-SPENSER list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SIDNEY-SPENSER&A=1 -- *********************************************************************** Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus), University of Toronto [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/germainew/ "There has never been a great age of science and technology without a corresponding flourishing of the arts and humanities." -- Cathy N. Davidson *********************************************************************** ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SIDNEY-SPENSER list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SIDNEY-SPENSER&A=1