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Definition of Spenser
1. Noun. English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599).
Definition of Spenser
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Middle English dot=), a rare spelling variant of Spencer. ¹
2. Proper noun. Edmund Spenser, English poet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spenser
Literary usage of Spenser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Spenser, FQ ii. 3. 27. embezzle, to waste, squander ; ' His bills embezzled ',
Dekker, Shoemakers' Holiday, i. 1 (Lincoln); Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia, ..."
2. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1916)
"Spenser wrote: And there, though last not least is Action; ... 3 We may assume
that the admiration of Spenser for Shakespeare was reciprocal. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Lady Cope is dead, and Spenser the Poet, who lately came from Ireland, ...
When hir Majestie had giuen order that Spenser should haue a reward for his poems ..."
4. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"Spenser held "the laboriously small literature" of Italy in undisguised disdain.
... Other motives, too, led Spenser to a love of antiquated expressions. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"Spenser. Living form ; appearance of life. Spenser. ... Spenser. Benefice of a
clergyman. Ibid. LITHE, ns [Fr.j The sum by which French reckon their ..."
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