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==Use by others== Spenser's verse form fell into disuse in the period immediately following his death. However, it was revived in the nineteenth century by several notable poets, including: * [[Mary Tighe]] in ''[[Psyche or the Legend of Love]]'' * [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] in ''[[The Escorial]]'' (1860) * [[Robert Southey]] in ''[[A Tale of Paraguay]]'' * [[Lord Byron]] in ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'' * [[James Hogg]] in ''[[Mador of the Moor]]'' * [[John Keats]] in ''[[The Eve of St. Agnes]]'' and ''[http://www.john-keats.com/gedichte/imitation_of_spenser.htm Imitation of Spenser]'' * [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] in ''[[The Revolt of Islam]]'' and ''[[Adonaïs]]'' * [[Walter Scott|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, Lord Tennyson]] in ''[[The Lotos-Eaters]]'', in the first part of the poem. * [[John Clare]] in ''The Harvest Morning''<ref>[http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?textsid=36290 John Clare, The Harvest Morning at spenserians.cath.vt.edu.]</ref> and ''November'' * [[George Washington Moon]] in ''Elijah the Prophet'' * [[John Frederick Rowbotham]] in ''The Epic of London'' * [[John Neihardt]] in ''The Divine Enchantment'' * [[William Cullen Bryant]] in ''The Ages'' * [[Sibella Elizabeth Miles]] in ''The Wanderer of Scandinavia; or, Sweden Delivered'' In Eastern Europe, English stanzaic forms were not at first very popular, these countries being too far from England's literary influence. Neither [[rhyme royal]] nor the Spenserian stanza occurred frequently. English rhyme schemes remained unknown until the early 19th century, when Lord Byron's poems gained enormous popularity. In Poland the Spenserian stanza was used by [[Juliusz Słowacki]] and [[Jan Kasprowicz]].<ref>Wiktor Jarosław Darasz, Mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim, Kraków 2003, pp. 152-153 (in Polish).</ref> In Czech literature [[Jaroslav Vrchlický]] wrote some poems in the Spenserian stanza, among others ''Stvoření světa'' (''The Creation of the World''): {{Verse translation| {{lang|cs|Chaos! Chaos! — Kdo postihne ty látky, jež v bezbarvé tu leží ve směsici, kde asi plyne základ země matky, kde lávy proud a skály ku měsíci, kde prvky světla v ohon vlasatici? Chaos, chaos... jen tma a tma kol čirá, obrovské světy ve hlubinách spící, kde stěžeje, na nichž se země vzpírá, kde oheň věčný jest, jejž ve svém nitru svírá?}}<ref>{{cite book | first = Jaroslav | last = Vrchlický | authorlink = Jaroslav Vrchlický | title = Duch a svět. Básně Jaroslava Vrchlického [The Spirit and the World. Poems by Jaroslav Vrchlický] | date = 1878 | edition = 3rd | location = Prague | publisher = J. Otta | page = 15 | url = http://kramerius.nkp.cz/kramerius/MShowMonograph.do?id=20820&author=Vrchlick%C3%BD_Jaroslav}}</ref> |attr1=Lines 1-9| Chaos! Chaos! Who discerns elements All cast in hueless compound out of sight? Where are the pillars of the continents, The lava flows, alps nearing lunar height, The sparks that make the comet's tresses bright? Chaos! Chaos! Darkness in sable dressed, Titanic worlds, asleep in depths of night — Where is the axle for the Earth's swift rest? Where the eternal fire within the planet's breast?}}
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