I wonder where the 1678 editors got the idea that Spenser was born in
1510? And please do send the info on your digitized facsimile!
cheers,
Joel B Davis
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Stetson University
421 N Woodland Blvd #8300
DeLand FL 32721
386.822.7724
On May 25, 2005, at 2:23 AM, John Geraghty wrote:
> Is there any interst in a 1678 digitized facsimile of the works? I
> have done this but have not fully posted it online yet.
>
> Some raw .jpgs on
> http://www.johngeraghty.com/Literature/Texts/Spenser/1678/
>
> -John
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> right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars....
>
> WHAT wonders hath he done!
> H e formed the earth and seas,
> A nd spread the heav'ns alone.
> T hy mercy, Lord,
>
> T hat all the sea did roare like heauens thunder,
> A nd all the waues were stain'd with filthie hewe.
> H ereby I learned haue, not to despise,
> WHAT euer thing seemes small in common eyes.
>
> W ith firie zeale he burnt in courage bold,
> H im to auenge, before his bloud were cold,
> A nd to the villein said, Thou damned wight,
> T he author of this fact, we here behold,
> WHAT iustice can but iudge against thee right,
> With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in
> sight.
>
> WHAT franticke fit (quoth he) hath thus distraught
> Thee, foolish man, so rash a doome to giue?
> WHAT iustice euer other iudgement taught,
>
>
> W ith martial port he strode, and stern delight:
> H eaps strew'd on heaps beneath his falchion groan'd,
> A nd monuments of dead deform'd the ground.
> T he time would fail should I in order tell
> WHAT foes were vanquish'd, and what numbers fell:
> H ow, lost through love, Eurypylus was slain,
> A nd round him bled his bold Cetaean train.
> T o Troy no hero came of nobler line,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James C. Nohrnberg" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Spenser editions, what to do?
>
> > If there's a manuscript of The Faerie Queene, you should
> > photocopy and publish it. There must have been a
> > manuscript that survived the poet by some years, of the
> > Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, until 1609; but now it's a
> > parcel gone whither no man wist--or it's slipped into the
> > extra-terrestrial jar containing the second six books of
> > The FQ and Orlando's wits: "These last flew to the moon,
> > at the precise midpoint of the model Spenser knew so well.
> > Ariosto's moon is the final resting-place of fond
> > intentions, unkept promises, and lost time, and this is
> > where the lawsuit of Mutabilitie properly begins." Or, in
> > Spenser's own words: "But lodwick, this of grace to me
> > aread: / doe ye not thinck th'accomplishment of it,
> > /sufficient work for one mans simple head,/all were it as
> > the rest but rudely writ./How then should I without
> > another wit,/thinck euer to endure so taedious toyle..."
> > (Amoretti XXXIII)
> >
> > On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:03:50 -0700
> > Jean Goodrich <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>Spenserians,
> >>
> >>I was going to take some time this summer to sit down
> >>with the 1609 manuscript
> >>of the Faerie Queene we have in the library, while I
> >>still have access. Besides
> >>reading and enjoying, do you have suggestions as to what
> >>I might do with it?
> >>Are there any unanswered 1609 manuscript quandries I
> >>might explore?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Jean Goodrich
> >>English Department
> >>University of Arizona
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
> > James Nohrnberg
> > Dept. of English, Bryan Hall 219
> > Univ. of Virginia
> > P.O Box 400121
> > Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
> >
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