Spenserism

English

Etymology

Spenser +‎ -ism

Noun

Spenserism (plural Spenserisms)

  1. A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.
    • 2007, Andrew Zurcher, Spenser's legal language: law and poetry in early modern England, page 4:
      The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]

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