At 10:43 AM 3/20/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Since the contiguity of Spenser's position in Ireland and American
>frontiersmanship has been raised,
>would anyone who can do so please tell me how (and where) Spenser was being
>read in early America?
The place to begin is probably Joann Peck Krieg's article "America to 1900,
influence in," in the Spenser Encyclopedia, pp. 27-29. She starts with a
couple of references in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (1643, 1650).
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