Definition of Spenserian in English:
Spenserian
adjective spɛnˈsɪərɪənspɛnˈsɪriən
Relating to or characteristic of the English poet Edmund Spenser or his works.
a prose romance of Spenserian allegory
Example sentencesExamples
- First performed and published in 1592, "The Spanish Tragedy" represents the theatrical translation of the Spenserian world view.
- The penultimate stanza is the only stanza that uses the Spenserian hexameter for its last line.
- This essay shows how feminist readings have given us a renewed interest in the Spenserian imagination.
- His Spenserian translation of the Odyssey and the first half of the Iliad was a unique achievement.
- The form is known as the Spenserian stanza, a specific form.
noun spɛnˈsɪərɪənspɛnˈsɪriən
An admirer, imitator, or student of the English poet Edmund Spenser or his works.
a small group of eighteenth-century Irish Spenserians
Example sentencesExamples
- It's been said that if Milton had died at the end of his first poetic period, he'd be remembered for his early poems as one of the great Spenserians after Shakespeare.
- It is a severe comment on the insularity of Spenserian scholarship that hitherto no Spenserian has recognized the portrait of Dee.
- Fletcher and his fellow Spenserians broke ground that was expanded most memorably by later authors.
- The Elizabethan Spenserians admired the romantic quality of Spenser.
- English Spenserians used pastoral poetry as a vehicle to express their discontent with Jacobean and Caroline court practices and ecclesiastical innovations.
Rhymes
Algerian, Cancerian, Chaucerian, Cimmerian, criterion, Hesperian, Hitlerian, Hyperion, Iberian, Liberian, Nigerian, Presbyterian, Shakespearean, Siberian, Sumerian, valerian, Wagnerian, Zairean
Definition of Spenserian in US English:
Spenserian
adjectivespenˈsirēənspɛnˈsɪriən
Relating to or characteristic of the English poet Edmund Spenser or his works.
a prose romance of Spenserian allegory
Example sentencesExamples
- His Spenserian translation of the Odyssey and the first half of the Iliad was a unique achievement.
- The form is known as the Spenserian stanza, a specific form.
- This essay shows how feminist readings have given us a renewed interest in the Spenserian imagination.
- The penultimate stanza is the only stanza that uses the Spenserian hexameter for its last line.
- First performed and published in 1592, "The Spanish Tragedy" represents the theatrical translation of the Spenserian world view.
nounspenˈsirēənspɛnˈsɪriən
An admirer, imitator, or student of the English poet Edmund Spenser or his works.
a small group of eighteenth-century Irish Spenserians
Example sentencesExamples
- English Spenserians used pastoral poetry as a vehicle to express their discontent with Jacobean and Caroline court practices and ecclesiastical innovations.
- Fletcher and his fellow Spenserians broke ground that was expanded most memorably by later authors.
- It is a severe comment on the insularity of Spenserian scholarship that hitherto no Spenserian has recognized the portrait of Dee.
- The Elizabethan Spenserians admired the romantic quality of Spenser.
- It's been said that if Milton had died at the end of his first poetic period, he'd be remembered for his early poems as one of the great Spenserians after Shakespeare.