Spenser

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.

We know well enough that the ordinary reader does not take Chaucer or Spenser from the shelf from year's end to year's end.

Pope, like all poets, had loved Spenser in his boyhood and was well read in English poetry.