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spenserian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spenserian \Spen*se"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem ``The Fa["e]rie Queene.''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, from Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599), Elizabethan poet (for the origin of the surname, see Spencer). Spenserian stanza, which he employed in the "Faerie Queen," consists of eight decasyllabic lines and a final Alexandrine, with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc.\n
\n"The measure soon ceases to be Spenser's except in its mere anatomy of rhyme-arrangement" [Elton, "Survey of English Literature 1770-1880," 1920]; it is the meter in Butler's "Hudibras," Scott's "Lady of the Lake," and notably the "Childe Harold" of Byron, who found (quoting Beattie) that it allowed him to be "either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition."
Wikipedia
Spenserian may refer to
- the adjective of Spenser, in particular
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Edmund Spenser (1552/3–99), English poet, in particular
- Spenserian stanza, used in The Faerie Queen; nine lines with rhyme scheme ababbcbcc
- Spenserian sonnet, with rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
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Edmund Spenser (1552/3–99), English poet, in particular
Usage examples of "spenserian".
Although I am confident that my evidence was sufficient, there were members of the committee who failed to believe that the presence of previously undiscovered Spenserian and Elizabethan music among native Ozark hill people was anything but curious coincidence.