Spenser is undoubtedly the “Poetic son of Chaucer”. As a poet, Spenser always wanted to innovatively expand the language. His works do not follow a strict lingo and he encouraged the use of archaic and rustic expressions. Spenser’s fine style always ranged from housing classicisms to conversions of foreign words. In every poem, Spenser significantly elevated the elegant use of archaic idioms & native expressions thereby making the lines sound elegant and exotic.
Previously, poets considered classicism boring and weakly expressive & never used any of such words in their works. On the other hand Spenser made his peers understand that linguistics positively develops with fine discovery of new words. Spenser at the outset did not follow any sort of dialect either. What makes his verses unsurpassed is that the sincere blend of rustic & archaic idioms, transparent phraseology, quasi-medieval diction, fair amount of classicism and some adaptations from the northern dialect. The light of renaissance shone brightly in works of Spenser, he ardently supported novelty in English language and envisioned it as a benchmark of developmental era.
Spenser’s style of writing included epithets, alliterations and iambic hexameter which add to the rhyme and rhythm of the verse. Epithets that Spenser used decorated the content and never gave any actual meaning. Spenser as a verbal expert can mesmerize readers with sweet musical lines of lyrical intensity. Spenser’s grammar is simpler, lucid and embraced fresh technicalities like the alexandrine or the iambic hexameter. The iambic hexameter could be divided into 12 syllables or six phrases which brought in a beautiful halt at the end of the stanza & sometimes also accounted to summarizing the meaning of the stanza or representing one complete portion of the scene in the stanza.
As an outstanding poet of non-dramatic renaissance, Spenser’s got it all...With opulent musical lines, harmony of rhyme and rhythm & grammatical simplicity with modernization of linguistic entities, Spenser still rules for his uniqueness.
