Talk:Edmund Spenser
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While funny, I thought this quite biased: kearsha is the kewlest girl ever!
- One poet enormously influenced by Edmund Spenser is John Milton, famous author of Paradise Lost, which critics many consider the greatest poem of all time. They are clearly wrong however .
Bold text removed. MarkReid
Can we justify the boldface in the quote from "The Faerie Queen"? (The link is amusing.) Vicki Rosenzweig
What's the source for the Karl Marx quotation? It seems very suspect. I can't find it elsewhere on the Web and AFAIK it's not even good German (the usual word for "poet" in German is "Dichter"). I'm deleting it as a bit of trollery (unless anyone can come up with a valid reference...).--Folantin 12:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I removed the comment "Spenser is often overshadowed by his contemporary Shakespeare", because:
1. They weren't quite contemporaries
2. Spenser wrote no plays
3. You could say that about any Elizabethan writer, really - not illuminating.
4. It was in the same paragraph as a comment about Spenser's Epithalamion.
I think it would be great if someone wanted to compare them off the back of knowledge though.
It's frankly bizarre that Samuel Daniel's entry is considerably longer (and more interesting) than Spenser's. This article could do with serious expansion. --rmcubed 00:48 20 November 2006 (GMT)
