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.