Bart Giamatti on Spenser
DB,
Here's a story from a friend who had Bart Giamatti at Yale.
"I always think about what I heard Bart Giamatti say to a student who said he didn't care about Spenser (that was Giamatti's specialty). 'You may not be interested in Spenser,' and he pointed to the kid in the audience and thundered, 'but Spenser was interested in you. And in all honesty, the question to ask isn't whether Spenser is good enough for you; it's whether you're good enough for him. So let us proceed.'"
And, I've always thought alongs the lines of Keats who said, "Let us have Shakespeare and Robin Hood, too."
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