"It is easy to mark out the general course of our poetry. Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Dryden, are the great landmarks for it."
— Edmund Spenser

January 1, 1970

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Alexander Pope, as quoted in Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820), p. 171