FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (Nov. 2) in 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on Lewis’s Cambridge lectures.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after forty years of reading it.”

Spenser’s Images of Life
(Published 11/2/1967)