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Spenser's Rosalind: A Conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Theodore H. Banks*
Affiliation:
Wesleyan University

Extract

Many efforts have been made to identify the Rosalind of Spenser's Shepheardes Calender. The following conjecture approaches the problem from a study of Mr. Douglas Hamer's article in the Review of English Studies for July, 1931, entitled Spenser's Marriage, which reaches the conclusion that in April, 1580, Spenser was newly married.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1937

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References

page 335 note 1 It seems unnecessary, however, to review them here, for Dr. J. J. Higginson prefaces his comprehensive analysis of them by saying that “the guesses of would-be discoverers have been either controverted or else believed by few.” Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in relation to Contemporary Affairs, p. 203.

page 335 note 2 Grosart, Spenser, i, 127.

page 335 note 3 There are 21 citations of this use in Thesaurus Lingua Latinœ (Leipsic, 1900), i, 1736.

page 335 note 4 iv, 10, 6.

page 335 note 5 XVI, 256.

page 335 note 6 iii, 116.

page 335 note 7 Luc. ix, 29: “facta est… species vultus eius altera.” King James Version: “The fashion of his countenance was altered.”

page 335 note 8 “Alter” should be translated the same way in both parts of the sentence, but Mr. Hamer translates it “second” and “another.”