ABSTRACT
Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) was brother of Giles, and a Fellow of King's College. The two brothers together are the leaders of the neo-Spenserian school. The influence of Spenser on Phineas is dealt with in tabular form by A. B. Langdale in Phineas Fletcher Man of Letters, Science and Divinity (New York, 1937), Appendix B. The passages below reflect at once the pervasiveness of Spenser's influence, and the atmosphere of sentimental adulation created around Spenser by members of the school. Quarles overstates when he calls Phineas Fletcher 'the Spencer of this age'.
