Possible Clues:

• Thomas ____, whose Summer’s Lost Will and Testament contains the song Spring, the Sweet Spring
• Thomas --, English dramatist and satirist (1567-1601)
• He anatomised the absurd
• His traveller was out of luck
• His lenten stuff something of a red herring
• His journeying page, Wilton, had no luck
• Like 8, he anatomised the absurd
• Poet of the sweet spring has direction about tree
• Statesman was pilgrim's weight
• James, who was seduced by the music of chance