Frederic Manning maybe. Tim Romano At 01:20 PM 8/14/03, Burt Hatlen wrote: >Listers, > >Here'a a question, born out of something a little more than idle >curiosity: In the first poem of Canzoni, "Canzon: The Yearly Slain," EP's >envoy reads as follows: "Be sped, my Canzon, through the bitter air! / To >him who speaketh words as fair as >these, / Say that I also know nthe "Yearly Slain" (CEP 134). Who is the >fellow-poet, that EP sees as the destined audience of his canzon? I've >checked Jackson, Witemeyer, and Grieve, but haven't found an answer in >their books on the early poetry. >My best guess is that he's sending the poem to Ovid: see the lines from >the Marlowe's translation of the Amores, as quoted in the ABC of Reading: >"And brydes from Memnon yeerly shall be slaine." But maybe I'm missing >some obvious reference to a >classical poet who wrote about the "Yearly Slain"? > >Burt Hatlen > > >__________ NOD32 1.483 (20030813) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System. >http://www.nod32.com