Spenserian

Mr. Lowell occasionally makes use of somewhat quaint, Spenserian expressions, but generally with peculiar effect.

The style was frequently detestable—a mixture of sham Spenserian and mock Wordsworthian, alternately florid and arid.

Another of this little group of late Spenserian pastoralists was, as we shall later see, an admirer of Beaumont.

The poem, in a gentle Spenserian vein, has no connection with the ‘Sonnets.’