I don't think anyone has mentioned, but isn't Heather James conducting a
session on the sound of Spenser's verse at MLA this year? This was
announced at the beginning of this year.
Dick Hardin
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Subject: Re: FQ aloud
Perhaps we can also think about various "scenes" of reading in FQ
itself. I assume that Guyon and Arthur are reading silently the
chronicles they find in Eumnestes' chamber in the House of Alma.
Busirane would seem to be reading out loud.
Ken
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Penny McCarthy wrote:
> Bill, You see Spenser as reading both the SC and the FQ to Elizabeth,
> based on CCCHA? I continue to be puzzled by what he says, because
> around line 360, Cynthia inclines her ear to his oaten pipe
> (pastoral); but around 620, though admonished that shepherds should
> not try to sing of angelic figures, Colin says that Cynthia's own
> excellence inspires him to try to speak of her
> (FQ?) though still in a pastoral context - lambs, shepherds' daughters
etc.
> Is he prompting us to think FQ, while actually meaning only pastoral?
After
> all, there are officially no Mutabilitie Cantos yet, which could be
counted
> as pastoral within the epic.
>
> Penny
>
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