Talk:Edmund Spenser

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Could the discussion of Brady and Canny's readings of the "View of the Present State of Ireland" be relegated to a subheading? It severely impairs the flow of Spenser's biography. I propose a "Controversy" subsection.

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While funny, I thought this quite biased:

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

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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)

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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)

Expansion

The comment that this article needs serious expansion, made in 2006, is still true. I have added in the obvious reference to Gabriel Harvey, and amended the statement about his death, as his dying in poverty is contested. But doing anything more is beyond me, as the article is also seriously imbalanced and needs wholesale reconstruction. --MWLittleGuy (talk) 13:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

References

This article's references can probably be cleaned up to combine both citation sectionsMrathel (talk) 20:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Reputation

I have deleted a sub-clause in the introductory statement. If anyone wishes to replace it, perhaps they would put in something that is (a) grammatical and (b) makes sense. If they wish to put in something as contentious as what has been deleted, perhaps they would reference it. --Martin Wyatt (talk) 22:03, 3 February 2012 (UTC)