Use By Others
Spenser's verse form fell into disuse in the period immediately following his death. However, it was revived in the 1800s by several notable poets, including:
- Lord Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- John Keats in The Eve of St. Agnes
- Percy Bysshe Shelley in The Revolt of Islam and Adonais
- Sir Walter Scott in The Vision of Don Roderick.
- Robert Burns in "The Cotter's Saturday Night," which shows his ability to use English forms while praising Scotland.
- William Wordsworth in "The Female Vagrant", included in Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
- Alfred Tennyson in The Lotos-eaters and Choric Song, in the first part of the poem.
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