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Spenser, Edmund
(Ed¦mund Spen|ser)
Pronunciation:
/ˈspɛnsə/
(
circa
1552–99
)
, English poet. He is best known for his allegorical romance
The Faerie Queene
(1590; 1596), celebrating Queen Elizabeth I and written in the Spenserian stanza.
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Spenserian
adjective
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