ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Spenser was called “the Poet’s Poet” by Charles Lamb, and was admired by John Milton, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Alfred Tennyson and others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spenser is sometimes called the “poet’s poet” because so many later English poets have learned the art of versification from him. In the 19th century alone his influence may be seen in Shelley’s Revolt of Islam, Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Keats’s Eve of St. Agnes, and Tennyson’s The Lotos Eaters.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spenser was the second father of English Poetry. He was the prince of poets of his times. Charles Lamb called him ‘Poetis poet’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ever since the end of the 14th century, Chaucer has been known as the “father of English poetry, ” a model of writing to be imitated by English poets. “He was one of the first poets of his day to write exclusively in English (his contemporary John Gower, for example, wrote in Latin, French, and English).

Detailed explanation-5: -A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience.