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The writings of Chaucer, Spenser, and Beaumont belong to a different literary style and period.

Actually that may be true of Chaucer, but not of Spenser and Beaumont who were Shakespeare's contemporaries. Spenser was a poet and sonnetteer just like Shakespeare (his sonnets are quite similar), and Beaumont was a playwright, who even had the same partner as Shakespeare (Fletcher)

No, in his dedicatory ode which appears in the First Folio he says this:

I will not lodge thee by

Chaucer or Spenser or bid Beaumont lie

A little further to make thee room;

Thou art a monument without a tomb

And art alive still while thy book doth live

And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

Jonson is saying that there is no need to bury Shakespeare because he is immortal through his art, a sentiment which Shakespeare often expressed in his sonnets.

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