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- adjective Of or pertaining to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet, or his works.
- noun One of a group of
poets who imitated Spenser.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I mean, he believed in Spenserian, if you will, management, where, you know, the guy in the office next to you is your enemy, not the guy across the street.
Dick Bove Is Backing Up The Truck For Citi And Bank Of America Steve Forbes 2010
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I wrote, I wrote everything -- ponderous essays, scientific and sociological short stories, humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas.
Chapter 23 2010
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I wrote humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas.
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I wrote, I wrote everything -- ponderous essays, scientific and sociological short stories, humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas.
Chapter XXIII 1913
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London experimented with various verse forms during his period of literary apprenticeship: "I wrote everything ... humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas."
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Alexandrine line, formed it into what has since been called the Spenserian stanza, which has been imitated by many great poets since, and by Byron, the greatest of them, in his Childe Harold.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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The invention of this melodious stanza, ever since called "Spenserian," was in itself a notable achievement which influenced all subsequent English poetry.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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They were all plays—except one long poem in Spenserian stanzas, which some woman of whom I remember nothing, not even if she was pretty, borrowed and lost out of her carriage when shopping.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Or to rephrase for the more snobbish among us who are English majors Petrarchan, Spenserian or Shakesperian sonnets?
Coming and Going: Taking Liberties and Taking Leave BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Are you writing Italian, Spenserian, or English Sonnets?
Coming and Going: Taking Liberties and Taking Leave BikeSnobNYC 2009
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