ABSTRACT
Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) was educated, as Spenser was, at Merchant Taylors' School, and then at Trinity College, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn. He joined the literary society of London and was acquainted with such figures as Greene, Barnabe Rich, Daniel, Drayton, Lyly, and Watson. The influence of Spenser on Lodge's verse is deep and pervasive, and Lodge's indebtedness is in part acknowledged by his dedication of the First Eclogue in A Fig for Momus to 'reuerend Colin'.
