The Hymns and the Prothalamion followed in the same year.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
Among the minor poems of Spenser the most delightful were his Prothalamion and Epithalamion.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
The Prothalamion contains a final record of his disappointments in England.
"Spenser (English Men of Letters Series)"
R. W. Church