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)

Example Sentences

As an actor, she has appeared in several television and films projects including Fox’s “Empire,” “Step Up 2:The Streets” and “Spenser Confidential.”

From Washington Times

"Group life insurance is crucial for people with pre-existing conditions who are denied independent coverage," said certified financial planner Spenser Liszt of Motif Planning in Dallas.

From Reuters

In it, Ewbank, a Kent State University professor emeritus, imagines how English poets — from Spenser and Shakespeare to Philip Larkin and Stevie Smith — might have reworked the Mother Goose classic “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

From Washington Post

The New Yorker declared that Mr. Greenberg was to wedding cakes “what Henry Purcell was to wedding music or Edmund Spenser to the epithalamium” — that is, a wedding song or poem.

From New York Times

The subsequent centuries were lousy with Valentine-related poetry and literary references—including the well-known "roses are red" line, which scholars trace to an epic poem by Edmund Spenser.

From Salon