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Chaucer was a class traitor
Shakespeare hated the mob
Donne sold out a bit later
Sidney was a nob.
Source: Against The Grain, ch. 14, The Ballad of English Literature (1986; to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory).
-- Terry Eagleton, (Feb 22 1943-____), British literary critic; He is known as a literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual.