This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
Dear Doris - These are some books you might take a look at: they aren't all very important in entirety, but you'll want the main ideas in them. Bush: Seventeenth Century History Legouis and Cazamian: History of Eng. Lit., parts on Elizab. [[?]] Tillyard: Elizabethan World Picture Craig: Enchanted Glass Berdan: Early Tudor Poetry G. Gregory Smith (editor): Elizabethan Critical Essays Spingarn: Criticism of the 17th Century o Battenhouse: Tamburlaine o Brooke: The Tudor Drama Adams (ed.): Chief Pre-Shak. Drama Joe Q. Manly (ed,): Specimens of Pre-Shak. Drama [[John M.?]] Bush: The Renaissance and Eng. Humanism: called in in both Tillyard: Sir Thomas Wyatt Renwick: Edmund Spenser (very important, though not awfully interesting; standard work.) Michael Roberts (ed.): Elizabethan Prose E. J. O'Brien (ed.): Elizabethan Tales Philip Henderson, Shorter Novels, Eliz. and Jacobean (Everyman) W: J: Lawrence: Physical Conditions of the Eliz. Playhouse Coffin and Witherspoon: Seventeenth Century Prose and POetry o Willey: 17th Century Background Grierson: Metaphysical Portey from Donne to Butler -RL call -Child mem Coffin: John Donne and the new philosophy Williamson: The Donne Tradition -RL call -Ema 130 Warren: Richard Crashaw Hanford: A Milton Handbook (important) Rollins: Tottle's Miscellany Use the newest editions for all the very big poets, and read widely in them. Read the introductions in these editions. Spenser Variorum is helpful, but don't let it confuse you by the quantity. How's it going? I'm loafing frenziedly wow. [[Fullbright?]] doesn't say anything. Latest figure I heard is 99% but even that doesn't lose me. Days of wrath, but will all come through. I'll have called you when you get there - or haven't I? You know me! Affectionately Bob
Transcription Notes:
bottom part is hand written while top segment is typed