Author: el5345

Time to get those rivers married! Finishing up the Hesiodic catalogue, Spenser/the narrator told us that all the rivers ‘that day in order seemly good / Did on ...

Continuing with our Hesiodic catalogue of rivers, we came up against questions of aging and time: the Scamander is ‘purpled yet with blood / Of Greeks and Troja...

Here at the threshold of the Temple of Venus, we begin with a negation: ‘Not that same famous temple of Diane, […] Nor that, […] Nor all’. John reminded us of M...

Meanwhile, Arthur and his ladies are back on the road. Sclaunder can’t help following them and railing ‘till she had all her poyson spent’ (xxxv) and ‘Till she ...

We rejoined our friends at the end of the tournament, when the narrator, with uncharacteristic generosity, recounts for us who won on each day, before turning t...