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Edmund Spenser   /ˈɛdmənd spˈɛnsər/   Listen
Edmund Spenser

noun
1.
English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599).  Synonym: Spenser.






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"Edmund Spenser" Quotes from Famous Books



... superiority over Lowestoft. It must be confessed that Nash is chiefly famous as a caustic pamphleteer and an unscrupulous satirist. For illustration we may point to his battle with Gabriel Harvey, the friend of Edmund Spenser, who desired that he might be epitaphed the inventor of the not yet naturalized English hexameter; and his other battle with Martin Mar Prelate, or the writer or writers who passed under that name, and who have acquired a reputation to which ...
— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie

... Edmund Spenser. Thomas Watson. Henry Constable. Michael Drayton. Thomas Lodge. John Davis. Samuel ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... priestess who saw visions." [Footnote: The words are Benjamin Haydn's. See Sidney Colvin, John Keats, p. 79.] In many descriptions, as of "the rapt one—the heaven-eyed" [Footnote: Wordsworth, On the Death of James Hogg] Coleridge, or of Edmund Spenser, ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins



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