Spenser

[ spen-ser ]

noun

1. Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.

Spenser

/ ˈspɛnsə /

noun

1. SpenserEdmund?15521599MEnglishWRITING: poet Edmund. ?1552–99, English poet celebrated for The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596), an allegorical romance. His other verse includes the collection of eclogues The Shephearde's Calendar (1579) and the marriage poem Epithalamion (1594)

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Brilliant as an exponent of the virtues in Spenser, Dante, Chaucer, Lewis could not write his own poetry.

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Iconic characters like Marlowe, Spenser, and James Bond make up the patchwork of our modern day folklore.

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Spenser in his Fairy Queen makes one of the characters include it with other herbs celebrated for medicinal qualities.

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Of all the great poets, but few have been such masters 281 of the art of making musical verse as Spenser.

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The word elfin, which became quite a common word, seems to have been invented by Spenser.

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Quick as in “quick and dead” meant living, whence “Elfe, to wit Quick,” was clearly understood by Spenser as life.

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After dinner construe Ovid (100 lines); finish second book of Spenser, and read two cantos of the third.

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