Lives of famous poets Author:William Michael Rossetti Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POETS BORN BETWEEN CHAUCER AND SPENSER. John Lydgate ....................... from c. 1370 to c. 1450. James I. of Scotland .................. from 1394 to ... more »1437. Thomas Occleve (or Hocci.eve) wrote c. 1420. Robert Hen Ryson .................. from c. 1425 to c. 1500. HWHAR™) MINSTREL (BLIND1 wrote,. 1475. William Dun Bar .................... from c. 1465 to f. 1530. John Skelton ........................ from 146910 1529. Gawin Douglas ..................... from 147510 1521 or 152 Alexander Barklay ............... died in 1552. Sir David Lindsay .................. from 1490 to c. 1557. John Bale .............................. from 149510 1563. Sir Thomas Wyatt .................. from 150310 1542. Nicholas Udall ..................... wrotec. 1532 to 1564. Earlofsurrey .................... from c. 1517 to 1547. from f 153 or 16 to Sir Walter Rai.eigh .............. from 155210 1618. George Peele ........................ from c. 1552 to 1598. EDMUND SPENSER. The second of our great English poets, Spenser, is a somewhat more obscure figure to us personally than the first of them, Chaucer. Of Chaucer as a man we all entertain a definite, and perhaps nearly the same, conception, founded mainly on the fact that he was the author of the Canterbury Tales; for the writer of that book must infallibly have been gifted with a spirit of observation, of humour, of enjoyment, of sympathy, of pathos, and with a warm-blooded and full-bodied sense of life, and a varied experience of it, which furnish us with a very human, loveable, and individual Chaucer, as the producer of the whole. But Spenser, as the author of the Faery Queen, is by no means equally real to us—he does not become to us equally a man. We find in this, and subordinately in his ...« less