SOURCE: “Some Spenserians,” in English Pastoral Poetry, Twayne Publishers, 1983, pp. 48-58.
In the following excerpt, Sambrook surveys the eclogues of courtly writers such as Michael Drayton, Richard Barnfield, George Wither, and William Browne, who took Edmund Spenser as their model, and contends that the work of these later poets lacks the symbolic richness and formal complexity of that of their master.
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