Crossword-Solution: SPENSERIAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Spenserian | a. | Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene." |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SPENSERIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Kind of stanza. | 1 answer |
| Poetic stanza | 4 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SPENSERIAN"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Intuitively work out
?
D
?
I
?
V
?
I
?
N
?
E
Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
EDINIV
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
9 +1
New Suggestion for "SPENSERIAN"
Related word tools
Sentences with SPENSERIAN (5)
Whether a narrative be written in blank verse or the Spenserian stanza, in the long period of Gibbon or the chipped phrase of Charles Reade, the principles of the art of narrative must be equally observed.
Does it arise from its being a multiple of seven? Has this principle any reference to the sabbatical ordinance? Or is it to the order of rhymes that these singular properties are attached? Unhappily the sonnets of Shakspeare differ as much in this respect from those of Petrarch, as from a Spenserian or an octave stanza.
The only warmth or spirit imported into it came from the bridegroom, who retained a vigorous--even Spenserian--bridal-mood throughout the morning.
Spenser invented for himself a new stanza of nine lines and made it famous, so that we call it after him, the Spenserian Stanza.
With a daring which now seems to me incredible I undertook to write in that most difficult of measures, the Spenserian stanza.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1968–1974).