Brilliant as an exponent of the virtues in Spenser, Dante, Chaucer, Lewis could not write his own poetry.
Iconic characters like Marlowe, Spenser, and James Bond make up the patchwork of our modern day folklore.
All men—Spenser as well as Jonson—found him gentle and witty, gay and generous.
Spenser's knights in the 'Fairy Queen' are mere shadows to them.
Spenser may have lost by being less realistic than Fielding.
In spiritual kinship he is much nearer to Spenser than to Shakespeare.
Philips had taken Spenser, and Pope took Virgil for his pattern.
It is for us, too, to remember with Spenser, "The noblest mind the best contentment has."
Dean Church says that we see in him a faint anticipation of Spenser.
Few things are more curious than to compare, let us say, Googe and Spenser.