Example sentences for: spenser

How can you use “spenser” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Spenser is notoriously troublesome here, with The Shepheardes Calender (1579), The Faerie Queene (1590) and Mother Hubberds Tale (1591) among the greatest hazards.

  • One of the poet Edmund Spenser's (d.1599) most poignant elegies commemorates Douglas Howard Georges , the wife of Arthur Georges.

  • The dead poets Oxford publishes--including Lord Byron, Edmund Spenser, and William Wordsworth--will remain in print.

  • In a sense, it seems illogical that we have retained the historic spellings for Spenser's works yet use modern spellings for the titles of plays by his contemporary, William Shakespeare.

  • But not all of the oldies are goodies: Edmund Spenser's dedications of his (nine) books vary from one-liners to some very sleepy sycophancies many times that length.


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