Spenserianadj.n.
/spɛnˈsɪərɪən/, U.S. /spɛnˈsɪriən/, /spɛnˈsɛriən/ 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific English, Scottish, or American poets
Chaucerian1660
Miltonian1708
Miltonic1708
Popean1730
Shakespeareana1754
Darwinian1794
Spenseric1795
Wordsworthian1810
Southeyan1817
Spenserian1817
Byronian1822
Byronic1823
Byronish1830
Coleridgian1834
Chattertonian1838
Keatsian1845
Tennysonian1846
Shelleyana1849
Patmorean1855
Rossettian1861
Praedesque1865
Swinburnian1865
Byro nical1871
Browningese1880
Browningesque1880
Patmorial1880
Wordsworthy1880
Browningitec1882
Whitmanesque1882
Thomsonian1890
Burnsian1904
Praedian1905
Blakeian1906
Poundian1917
Thompsonian?1921
Whitmanisha1930
Whitmanian1948
Betjemanic1956
Betjeman1958
Betjemanesque1959
Betjemanish1959
Whitmannica1960
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iv. 84 The Spencerian stanza, which always..recalls to the reader's mind Spencer's own style.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ii. 49 I..was busy in meditation on the oft-recurring rhymes of the Spenserian stanza.
1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. vii. 273 The Spenserian mingling of this mediæval image..is altogether exquisite.
1890 J. K. Hosmer Anglo-Saxon Freedom 97 The redoubtable Spenserian giant, Kirk-rapine.
B. n.
1. A Spenserian stanza, or a poem in this metre.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > poem in Spenserian stanzas
Spenserian1818
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > nine-lined or Spenserian stanza
Spenserian1818
1818 J. Keats Lett. (1848) I. 133 I see no reason..why I should not have a peep at your Spenserian.
1853 J. Nichol in Knight Mem. (1896) ii. 101 I hope to come nearer it at any rate than in these Spenserians.
1886 Athenæum 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > admiration or imitation of specific poet > [noun] > admirer or imitator of specific poet
Homerist1599
Homeriana1604
Ronsardian1697
Popean1730
Miltonian1748
Pindarist1781
Wordsworthian1812
Petrarchist1823
Byronist1830
papista1849
Goethian1850
Tennysonian1850
Shakespearolater1875
Ronsardist1877
Shelleyite1881
Browningitec1882
Byronian1883
Byronite1884
Shelleyan1886
Whitmanite1887
Keatsian1891
Spenserian1894
Omarian1897
Racinian1898
bardolater1903
Petrarchan1904
Burnsite1909
Thompsonian1913
Omarite1918
Burnsian1920
Shelleyist1934
Whitmanist1934
Dickinsonian1936
Poundian1950
Chattertonian1956
Whitmaniac1959
Whitmanian1977
1894 E. Gosse 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.
Derivatives
Spenˈseric adj. [-ic suffix.] Spenserian.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > specific English, Scottish, or American poets
Chaucerian1660
Miltonian1708
Miltonic1708
Popean1730
Shakespeareana1754
Darwinian1794
Spenseric1795
Wordsworthian1810
Southeyan1817
Spenserian1817
Byronian1822
Byronic1823
Byronish1830
Coleridgian1834
Chattertonian1838
Keatsian1845
Tennysonian1846
Shelleyana1849
Patmorean1855
Rossettian1861
Praedesque1865
Swinburnian1865
Byro nical1871
Browningese1880
Browningesque1880
Patmorial1880
Wordsworthy1880
Browningitec1882
Whitmanesque1882
Thomsonian1890
Burnsian1904
Praedian1905
Blakeian1906
Poundian1917
Thompsonian?1921
Whitmanisha1930
Whitmanian1948
Betjemanic1956
Betjeman1958
Betjemanesque1959
Betjemanish1959
Whitmannica1960
1795 A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 113 That gay town, which Shenstone, in his Spenseric poem, the Schoolmistress, has so beautifully apostrophized.
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