Volume 24, Number 11 · June 23, 1977
Wandering in Wayes Unknowne
By Robert M. Adams
The Analogy of The Faerie Queene
by James Nohrnberg
Princeton University Press, 870 pp., $40.00
Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination
by Isabel G. MacCaffrey
Princeton University Press, 445 pp., $10.50 (paper)
Eight-hundred-plus choked, allusive, erudite pages on The Faerie Queene! An impatient reader of James Nohrnberg's enormous new book will be in danger of suffocating, from sheer exasperation, before he gets to the end of it; but if he's really impatient, he will already have suffocated, in the course of his passage through Spenser's poem, so the new mortality lists aren't likely to be long.
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