Ingrate!

Miltonista has been trying to bone up on Spenser scholarship*. (Fret not, reader--I'll never become a Spenserista, no matter how hard I try. I just don't think that way.) I've been learning a good bit, but this is by far my favorite snippet of information, from the Acknowledgements page of Andrew Hadfield's Spenser's Irish Experience:

This book was originally conceived as a D. Phil thesis at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, supervised by Professor Robert Welch, 'a loose, baggy, monster' . . . . 

Now that's just rude.**

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* - I have assiduously avoided quoting that thing Milton says about Spenser vis-a-vis Aquinas and Scotus.

** - Yes, yes, if you keep reading the sentence you learn that Hadfield is talking about his thesis, not Welch. And I'm sure this has been pointed out to him since.

Buy your own damn fries

Click on this link. If you haven't witnessed this before, you'll thank me.

I suppose I could make some feeble attempt to make this post Milton-related. But I'm a bit groggy this afternoon, so I'd much rather have any of you that happen to be reading give it a shot. (Yes, this is a shameless attempt to ring up my comment count as well as a pathetic attempt to preserve the Miltonic purity of this blog.)