they shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to them both

[angevin2]

So I've been reasonably productive this evening, in that I got the assignment for Tuesday mailed out to my students, and printed out a bunch of citations and one article on Perkin Warbeck (since I got to thinking after adding a bunch of stuff to the Big File o'Possible Dissertation-Related Information and Ramblings. Which is also productive, come

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[slipstreamsurfr]

Yeah, I well remember the first day in our Phil and Lit class. The prof told us what we'd be doing, how we'd take what we were learning on examining Heidegger and applying it as a filter/lens to another work of literature. We were all like, WHAT?!?! We are just puny Juniors!! Tedious wasn't the word for 16 weeks of pure Heidegger for us. But I really was suprised at how much I learned in the class. It has really helped me to be able to apply some of this stuff in my writings. I'm glad I took it.

I really haven't gotten much into Spenser yet. We've gone over a bit of him in our junior level brit lit 1 class. But it has been pretty light. I've tried reading the Fairie Queen on my own, but I get really bogged down in it. Other than just accepting that every woman of power in the book is Queen E, I've not gotten very deep into it yet. ;)

Do you have a recommendation on a particular edition for people just getting into the book? I know that you've been going through it again. I know that he wrote it in an old style for his time. That makes the prose a bit harder to read I suppose.

[angevin2]

I've been reading the Longman edition, edited by A.C. Hamilton -- this is the standard scholarly edition. It has really good footnotes, although on the other hand they do tend to give the game away occasionally. But it's very thorough.

And yeah -- I've tried to read the poem on my own before as well, and never really made it through. I'm on a schedule now so that's easier. And I know what you mean about the Elizabeth thing -- every time I run across a female character I find myself wondering "Now what's she got to do with the Queen?" ;)