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Definition of Edmund spenser
1. Noun. English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edmund Spenser
Literary usage of Edmund spenser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"edmund spenser 1552-1599 Born, in London, 1552 (?). Early education at Merchant
Taylor's School. To Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as Sizar, 20 May 1569; BA, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1855)
"Memorial* of edmund spenser the Poet, and his descendants, from the Public ...
With respect to the poet edmund spenser himself, I find upon the Memoranda ..."
3. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1904)
"CHAPTER IX COURT ALLEGORY: edmund spenser THE genius of Spenser was by far the most
... edmund spenser was born in Smithfield in i 5 5 2 or 1553. ..."
4. The English Poets by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1901)
"edmund spenser. [edmund spenser was born in London about 1551. He was educated
at Merchant Taylors' School: his first poetical performances, ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"The generall end there- j fore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or
noble edmund spenser was born in London about 1552, and died there in ' 1590. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"edmund spenser (i55*?-i$99) BY J. DOUGLAS BRUCE edmund spenser was born in London
in \lthough the obscurity which hangs a life and circumstances of the ..."
7. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"... to whicb edmund spenser belonged, and wliile there executed his translation
of that poet's ' Shepherd's Calendar.' This translation liad t lie honour ot ..."
8. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"[From a Me.moir in "The Poetical Works of edmund spenser." 1855-60.] M ^HE better
part of Spenser's life was spent in Ireland, in what must -*- be regarded ..."
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