The Tears of the Muses are complaints that Spenser [and all 9 of the Muses ]have against all the discouragements that he has suffered at the hands of critics and the decay of patronage that has resulted from these censurers. The poem is long, really, really long, and all the complaining gets a bit monotonous.
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The Tears of the Muses are complaints that Spenser [and all 9 of the Muses ]have against all the discouragements that he has suffered at the hands of critics and the decay of patronage that has resulted from these censurers. The poem is long, really, really long, and all the complaining gets a bit monotonous.