The distinguished Canadian poet (and in his thesis, Spenserian) James
Reaney once told me that he read FQ to his children as a bed-time
story. And of course it was he who wrote the brilliant set of twelve
pastoral eclogues "A Suit of Nettles" (1958) which transposes the satire
of SC very wittily to the Ontario countryside. Germaine.
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus)
VC 205, Victoria College (University of Toronto),
73 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, CANADA
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