 Samuel Johnson also commented critically on Spenser's diction, with which he became intimately acquainted during his work on "A Dictionary of the English Language", and "found it a useful source for obsolete and archaic words"; Johnson, however, mainly considered Spenser's (early) pastoral poems, a genre of which he was not particularly fond.The diction and atmosphere of "The Faerie Queene" relied on much more than just Middle English; for instance, classical allusions and classical proper names abound—especially in the later books—and he coined some names based on Greek, such as "Poris" and "Phao lilly white.