We had a great time at Spenser@Random last week talking about this stanza from Book 6 about a confusing 2-on-1 fight. It starts with an awkward insult ("foule womanwronger"!) and ends with a rather courteous simile ("like to that heauenly sparke..."):

SPENSER IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, our Inclusive Pedagogy Initiative event, is tomorrow! Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy St. George’s Day!

Join us on April 24 for a lively discussion of how teaching Spenser can solve the crisis of attention in the classroom! Or at least distract us from other crises. Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thanks to all who attended our most recent Spenser@Random, where we read this stanza from Book 4, Canto 8, which offers the cure for male loneliness: find a friend who looks just like you and is easily confused with you, physically and also grammatically.

Thanks to all who came to Spenser@Random yesterday, where the wheel of fortune fell on this stanza from Book 6. We had wonderful discussions about crying babies, space and time, sight and sound, epic and tragedy, and at last, at length, we realized there is always more to say about Spenser.

International Spenser Society invites abstracts for a session on Spenser and catastrophe at MLA 2026 in Toronto. Come catastrophize with us! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...

Thanks to all who came to Spenser@Random with @saaupdates.bsky.social to discuss our randomly selected sonnets by Spenser and Shakespeare! Shakespeare's no-nonsense family planning sonnet is especially funny next to Spenser's exaggerated Petrarchan stylings and "sudden dumps"

Join us and @saaupdates.bsky.social for Spenser & Shakespeare at Random on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 12pm Eastern/5pm GMT!

We'll randomly choose a sonnet by each poet to close read in randomly generated breakout rooms. Free, all welcome, registration required: lsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...