Splendid topic! I hope somebody will revisit Dave Novarr's idea that
Donne's bawdy Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn represents a parody of
Spenser's Epithalamion. Perhaps someone already has, but perhaps there's
more to be said on the topic.
On 12/23/2010 12:23 PM, Kenneth Gross wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm posting a CFP for a session that the Spenser Society wants to
> undertake jointly with The John Donne Society for the 2012 MLA. Please
> pass this along to others you think might be interested who are not on
> the list -- and if anyone as advice about other listservs where this
> might be posted, let me know.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> Call for Papers:“Spenser, Donne, and the Work of Poetry”
>
> The International Spenser Society and The John Donne Society seek papers
> for a joint session on “Spenser, Donne, and the Work of Poetry” at the
> 2012 MLA convention in Seattle.Contributors might explore the two poets’
> similar or contrasting attitudes toward such work, ranging from the
> “work” of poetic making and the shaping of poetic fictions to the “work”
> they thought poetry accomplished, either in the social sphere or in the
> individual reader.Papers might examine these poets’ attitudes toward
> their audiences, their sense of poetry as a vocation, the material shape
> of the poet’s texts (the printed or written “work”), as well as how
> their texts frame the work or labor of reading poetry, or how Spenser
> and Donne view the “wild work” of fancy more broadly.This latter
> emphasis might include questions about how Donne reads Spenser.
>
> Abstracts: 200 words
>
> Due: 1 March 2011
>
> Contributors should send abstracts and inquiries to both Kenneth Gross,
> Department of English, University of Rochester, [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Sean McDowell, Department of English,
> Seattle University, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
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