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Spenser

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Spen·ser  (spnsr), Edmund 1552?-1599.
English poet known chiefly for his allegorical epic romance The Faerie Queene (1590-1596). His other works include the pastoral Shepeardes Calendar (1579) and the lyrical marriage poem Epithalamion (1595).
Spen·seri·an (spn-sîr-n) adj.
Spenser [ˈspɛnsə]
n
(Biographies / Spenser, Edmund (?1552-1599) M, English, WRITING: 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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Noun1.SpenserSpenser - English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)
Edmund Spenser


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If we could stand aside, as it were, and take a wide view of all our early literature, it would seem as if the names of Chaucer and Spenser stood out above all others like great mountains.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
I should be proud to have for the motto of my cabin those lines of Spenser which one of my visitors inscribed on a yellow walnut leaf for a card:--
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She even made George Osborne contribute, and nothing loth (for he was as free-handed a young fellow as any in the army), he went to Bond Street, and bought the best hat and spenser that money could buy.
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