⁴ Craig A. Berry, ‘“Sundrie Doubts”: Vulnerable Understanding and Dubious Origins in Spenser’s Completion of the Squire’s Tale’, in Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance, ed. Theresa M. Krier (Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1998), 106–27, esp. 108. Berry emphasizes the ‘doubts’ Spenser’s verbal complexity raises about ‘literary inheritance’ (115) and discusses the Elizabethan anxiety over Chaucer as a national poet, in Sidney and others (108, 113–14). Spenser’s apostrophe to Chaucer has received extended analysis: Jonathan Goldberg, Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1981); Patrick Cheney, ‘Spenser’s Completion of The Squire’s Tale: Love, Magic, and Heroic Action in the Legend of Cambell and Triamond’, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (1985), 135–55; Carol A.N. Martin, ‘Authority and the Defense of Fiction: Renaissance Poetics and Chaucer’s House of Fame’, in Krier (ed.), Refiguring Chaucer, 40–65; and Theresa M. Krier, ‘Orality and Chaucerian Textuality in The Faerie Queene IV.i-iii: Spenser’s Quest for Mothers to Think Back Through’, paper presented at the conference of the Modern Language Association (San Francisco, CA, 2001).

⁵ Rpt. in Spenser: The Critical Heritage, ed. R. M. Cummings (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971), 98–9. Subsequent parenthetical citations in this paragraph come from this volume.