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Spenserian, a. and n.|spɛnˈsɪərɪən|
[f. the name of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser (? 1552–1599) + -ian.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to, characteristic of, Spenser or his work.
Spenserian stanza, the stanza employed by Spenser in the Faerie Queen, consisting of eight decasyllabic lines and a final Alexandrine, with the rhyming scheme ab ab bc bcc.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. iv. 84 The Spencerian stanza, which always..recalls to the reader's mind Spencer's own style. 1818Scott Rob Roy ii, I.. was busy in meditation on the oft-recurring rhymes of the Spenserian stanza. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vii. 273 The Spenserian mingling of this mediæval image..is altogether exquisite. 1890Hosmer Anglo-Sax. Freedom 97 The redoubtable Spenserian giant, Kirk-rapine.
B. n.
1. A Spenserian stanza, or a poem in this metre.
1818Keats Lett. (1848) I. 133, I see no reason..why I should not have a peep at your Spenserian. 1853J. Nichol in Knight Mem. (1896) ii. 101, I hope to come nearer it at any rate than in these Spenserians. 1886Athenæum 23 Jan. 131/2 Scarcely any poet since Spenser has written entirely successful Spenserians... Byron..failed altogether in Spenserians.
2. A follower or imitator of Spenser; a poet of Spenser's school.
1894Gosse Jacobean Poets 47 His [Donne's] were the first poems which protested, in their form alike and their tendency, against the pastoral sweetness of the Spenserians.
So Spenˈseric, a. [] Spenserian.
1795A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 113 That gay town, which Shenstone, in his Spenseric poem, the Schoolmistress, has so beautifully apostrophized. |