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First erotic writer in English
This is a debatable one. Atkins plumps for Spenser as "the first writer in English to be
consciously erotic." The
"Faerie Queen" is represented as a "mine of sensuality." A "Spectator" article is cited to
indicate the sexual
significance of the Spenser imagery -"You do not need any psychoanalytic training to see here
a rather grisly
amalgam of the male and female sexual organs," after quoting the description of the lustful
monster in Book IV,
Canto VII. Now it's Atkins again - Spenser reckoned to be preaching chastity and religion, but
he "allowed his
imagination to luxuriate in obscenities which would have impressed both Shakespeare and
Donne."