Spenserians

At BU I had one student go totally nuts and write a series of TEN Spenserians, all fantastical and allegorical--and although they were damn awkward syntactically, she had the form down cold.

Archive 2007-03-01 Flavia 2007

At BU I had one student go totally nuts and write a series of TEN Spenserians, all fantastical and allegorical--and although they were damn awkward syntactically, she had the form down cold.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

Clare imitates the Spenserians of Childe Harold but typically drops the final alexandrine, the formal sign of chivalric romance.

Like 1999

A protest, it is said, against love poems, but also, I think, against the pastoral allegorical poetry of the Cambridge Spenserians.

Notes: Divine Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

The language, too, is not obtrusively archaic as it is in Chatterton and some of the Spenserians; at most an occasional "wist" or "eftsoons"; now and then a light accent, in ballad fashion, on the final syllable of a rime-word like mariner or countrie.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

The first two, as we have seen, were among the earliest Spenserians: Dyer was a landscape painter, as well as a poet; and Shenstone was one of the best of landscape gardeners.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

One of the earlier Spenserians was Gilbert West, the translator of

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Akenside ranks among the earlier Spenserians by virtue of his "Virtuoso"

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

These two poems have the freedom and frolic, the natural grace of movement, the improvisation, of the best Elizabethan examples, while both thoughts and words are under a strict economy unknown to the diffuse exuberance of the Spenserians.

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

Clevelands, the Denhams, and the Drydens, whom he did not account as poets at all, but even from the Spenserians.

Milton Mark Pattison 1848