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Spenserian
[ spen-seer-ee-uhn ]
noun
- an imitator of Spenser.
- verse in Spenserian stanzas.
Spenserian
/ spɛnˈsɪərɪən /
adjective
- relating to, in the style of, or characteristic of Edmund Spenser, the English poet (?1552–99), or his poetry
noun
- a student or imitator of Edmund Spenser
Word History and Origins
Origin of Spenserian1
Example Sentences
The Northumbrian poet Basil Bunting once observed that Whitman’s melding of words and music broke “the general Spenserian model of English poetry.” We have come to call it “free verse,” though that conceals more than it reveals about the intricate interleaving of form and content, sound and meaning.
She has been painted as the defiant Gloriana of Spenserian epic, uniting the land in religion and peace, and the mercurial crone lusting after her younger courtiers.
They speak English, and they smile indulgently at my clumsy attempts to communicate in Fusha— which sounds to them the way a toddler attempting to declaim Spenserian English might sound to us. I do not blend.
He didn’t espouse modernism or the avant garde, favoring instead American vernacular styles, Spenserian scripts and a sort of hybrid modernism.
The person holding the position nominally superior feels himself in reality quite "over-crowed," to use a Spenserian expression, by the influence, importance, and dignity of the other.
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