Catherine Nicholson

Catherine Nicholson is associate professor of English at Yale University and the author of Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance. The four-hundred-year story of readers' struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies "I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer's fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?" The plaint of an anonymous...