Pope admired him; Keats learned from him the best part of his music.

You can trace echoes of him in Mr.Yeats.What is it that gives him this hold on his peers?
Well, in the first place his defects do not detract from his purely poetic qualities.

The story is impossibly told, but that will only worry those who are looking for a story.

The allegory is hopelessly difficult; but as Hazlitt said "the allegory will not bite you"; you can let it alone.

The crudeness and bigotry of Spenser's dealings with Catholicism, which are ridiculous when he pictures the monster Error vomiting books and pamphlets, and disgusting when he draws Mary Queen of Scots, do not hinder the pleasure of those who read him for his language and his art.