Spenser

American  

[spen-ser] / ˈspɛn sər /

noun

1. Edmund, c1552–99, English poet.

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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)

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Example Sentences

"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 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

Brandon and his brother, Spenser, began working part-time as high school students in the mid-2000s.

From Seattle 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