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Epithalamion
Book • 1926
Edmund Spenser's 'Epithalamion' is a celebratory wedding poem written for his own marriage to Elizabeth Boyle in 1594.
The poem unfolds as a sequence of stanzas that mirror the events of the wedding day, from dawn until night.
Spenser invokes various mythological figures and Christian symbols to bless the union and ensure fertility and happiness.
Through vivid imagery and elaborate metaphors, the poem celebrates the beauty of love, the sanctity of marriage, and the harmony between the natural and divine realms.
'Epithalamion' stands as one of the finest examples of the epithalamium genre in English literature.
The poem unfolds as a sequence of stanzas that mirror the events of the wedding day, from dawn until night.
Spenser invokes various mythological figures and Christian symbols to bless the union and ensure fertility and happiness.
Through vivid imagery and elaborate metaphors, the poem celebrates the beauty of love, the sanctity of marriage, and the harmony between the natural and divine realms.
'Epithalamion' stands as one of the finest examples of the epithalamium genre in English literature.
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