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The Date of Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

J. M. Purcell*
Affiliation:
Marquette University

Abstract

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Type
Comment and Criticism
Information
PMLA , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , September 1935 , pp. 914 - 917
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1935

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References

1 The evidence is summarized in A Spenser Handbook by H. S. V. Jones (1930), Chap. xx. The chief articles on the subject are as follows: “The Cantos of Mutabilitie. Further Considerations Bearing on the Date ” by Frederick M. Padelford, PMLA, xlv (1930), 704 ff.; “The Date of Spenser's Cantos of Mutability,” by Douglas Bush, Ibid., pp. 954–957; “On the Dating of Spenser's ‘Mutability’ Cantos” by E. M. Albright, SP, xxvi (1929), 482 ff.

2 James V. Fletcher, “Some Observations on the Changing Style of the Faerie Queene,” SP, xxxi (1934), 152–159.

3 I exclude the two stanzas of Mutabilitie canto viii because this fraction of acanto is too small to work with satisfactorily.

4 Floyd Stovall, “Feminine Rimes in the Faerie QueeneJEGPH, xxvi (1927), 91–95. For Padelford's article see note 1 above.