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Spenser

American  
[spen-ser] / ˈspɛn sər /

noun

  1. Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.


Spenser British  
/ ˈspɛnsə /

noun

  1. Edmund. ?1552–99, English poet celebrated for The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596), an allegorical romance. His other verse includes the collection of eclogues The Shephearde's Calendar (1579) and the marriage poem Epithalamion (1594)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Group life insurance is crucial for people with pre-existing conditions who are denied independent coverage," said certified financial planner Spenser Liszt of Motif Planning in Dallas.

From Reuters Nov. 8, 2023

The Orioles recalled RHPs Yennier Cano and Spenser Watkins from Triple-A Norfolk before the game and placed LHP Keegan Akin on the paternity list.

From Washington Post Apr. 14, 2023

The New Yorker declared that Mr. Greenberg was to wedding cakes “what Henry Purcell was to wedding music or Edmund Spenser to the epithalamium” — that is, a wedding song or poem.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2023

The subsequent centuries were lousy with Valentine-related poetry and literary references—including the well-known "roses are red" line, which scholars trace to an epic poem by Edmund Spenser.

From Salon Feb. 14, 2023

Minority student—that was the label I bore in college at Stanford, then in graduate school at Columbia and Berkeley: a nonwhite reader of Spenser and Milton and Austen.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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