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Spenser, Edmund

Pronunciation: /ˈspɛnsə/

Definition of Spenser, Edmund
  • (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.

Derivatives

Spenserian

adjective

Spenser, Edmund in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Spenser, Edmund in the US English dictionary