>Indeed. And he's maybe a generation before Shakespeare.
> On Jun 3, 2004, at 2:53 PM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > Look what happens in Norway or the Netherlands. Ibsen gets republished
> > in the new orthography, but the vast majority of 19th-century authors
> > don't. But we can read anything back to Swift and Pope and Dryden (if
> > not Milton) exactly as they spelled them.
> >
>
> *sigh* Trying to read Spenser gave me a headache...