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The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is ABABBCBCC. [1] [2]
This work, with the preceding one, is a rewriting of Spenser's first published work, on the theme of Roman liberty and its end. [14] It is not completely clear that authorship lies with Spenser The origins of this poem lay in a version via Clément Marot 's French of Standomi un giorno solo a la fenestra , which is canzone 323 by Petrarch .
Spenser is seen as one of the greatest poets of all time, and this poem is regarded as one of the best written in the English language. [ 5 ] Spenserian sonnets were created during the same time period as the Shakespearean sonnet , and so there are similarities in the features of both forms.
Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry William Lindsay Renwick (6 January 1889 – 25 November 1970) was professor of English literature at Durham University from 1921 to 1945 and Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1945 to 1959.
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Referring to Spenser's 1579 letter, H. R. Bourne was first to claim that the Areopagus was "a sort of club" of which "Sidney appears to have been president". [1] Fox also noted similarity in the style and project of alleged Areopagus members, including Spenser, Harvey and Abraham Fraunce, leading him to conclude that Sidney was attempting to establish "a new school of poetry".
Illustration by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale . Prothalamion, the commonly used name of Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset, [1] is a poem by Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), one of the important poets of the Tudor period in England.
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