Is there anyone here who regards *The Faerie Qveene* by *Edmund Spenser* as an extreme colossus of English Literature? ...

... as I do myself? I don't doubt there are somewhere English Literature -heads who indeed do regard it thus ... but it just doesn't seem to get anywhere-near the rating @-large that, say, Shakespeare & Milton get ... & totally deserves, ImO.

And, by-the-way, I will not touch, even so much as with a bargepole , anything other than an original spelling edition of it: with the spelling totally un-messed-about-with.