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The Spenserian stanza has been popularly considered the poet's great contribution to English literature, and several theories have been advanced as to its construction.
Edmund Spenser (/ ˈspɛnsər /; 1552/1553 – 13 January O.S. 1599) [ 2 ][ 3 ] was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Spenserian stanza, verse form that consists of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of six iambic feet (an alexandrine); the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc. The first eight lines produce an effect of formal unity, while the hexameter completes the thought of the stanza.
William Bedell’s simplistic and repetitive Spenserianism clarifies what tropes and images predictably called the concept “Spenser” to the minds of writers and readers in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, while Joseph Hall’s disgusting parodies of Spenserian images and language from The Faerie Queene, which serve to contrast his...
The Spenserian Dynamics HARRY BERGER, JR. Spenser's view of experience is patterned after ancient models of the discordia concors motif, but he is original in his dynamic and develop-mental undelrstanding of the model. His poetry reveals something like an evolutionary scheme in the parallel development of culture (history,
The characters of Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590, 1596) especially resist division into allegorical and nonallegorical forms, because of the uneven way the poem blends allegory into conventions of epic and romance.
In Calidor’s quest to subdue the Blatant Beast, Spenser presents a further exploration of the relationship between the civil and the natural. The knight first finds the Beast in Gloriana’s city of Cleopolis, which in one of its allegorical senses stands for Elizabethan London.
