English Literature / Unit 6 ENL 0513 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion
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The idea
Amoretti, a sonnet sequence in Spenser's interlocked rhyme scheme, celebrates his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle, whom he married in fifteen ninety-four; it ends in successful love. Epithalamion, a wedding song after the classical form, celebrates the marriage itself.
In practice
Courtship in sonnets, then a wedding song.
Where people slip
Unlike most sequences, this love succeeds.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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