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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Spenser

Spenser arrived in Ireland in 1580, during the brutal suppression of the Second Desmond Rebellion, and became a beneficiary of the plantations, through which confiscated Irish lands were granted to English settlers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

This Gibney program, which also includes a second Tharp dance and a world premiere by Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge, is an improvement over recent ones, a step in the right direction.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

"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

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 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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