Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...
...Detroit physician named Orville Owen went so overboard on his own cipher theory that he declared Bacon was not only Shakespeare but also such authors as Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Robert Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
Alfred W. Satterthwaite 7G has been awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $100 for his essay entitled "The Moral Vision of the World: A Comparison of Spenser, DuBellay, and Ronsard...
...language need not be confined to poetry and advertising. Yet to call a work a successful epic, even when it combines scope, structure, and expression, is always dangerous. Perhaps more fitting would be the suggestion that for the twentieth century, Tolkien is more acceptable and more comprehensive than Malory, Spenser, or Milton...
Amidst dramatic productions by the HDC, Drumbeats and Song, and other College groups, yesterday's announcement of a new course in playwrighting spotlights an important development at the University. Along with the Drama Club's recent decision to enter television and the unprecedented naming of two Spenser lecturers on Drama for this spring, the course represents something University people have been waiting for since 1923: A full-scale revival of interest in the Theatre at Harvard...