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- noun A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.
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Spenser + -ism
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Thomson, perhaps, came too early to reach any more advanced stage of evolution than Spenserism.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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