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  2. Amoretti - Wikipedia

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    Amoretti is a sonnet cycle written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century. The cycle describes his courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. Amoretti was first published in 1595 in London by William Ponsonby. It was printed as part of a volume entitled Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written not long since by Edmunde Spenser.

  3. Edmund Spenser - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Spenser (/ ˈ s p ɛ n s ər /; born 1552 or 1553; died 13 January O.S. 1599) [2] [3] was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the ...

  4. Epithalamion (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Epithalamion is an ode written by Edmund Spenser to his bride, Elizabeth Boyle, on their wedding day in 1594. It was first published in 1595 in London by William Ponsonby as part of a volume entitled Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written not long since by Edmunde Spenser.

  5. Sonnet sequence - Wikipedia

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    An exception is Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, where the wooing is successful, and the sequence ends with an Epithalamion, a marriage song. The arrangement of the sonnets generally reflects thematic concerns, with chronological arrangements (whether linear, like a progression, or cyclical, like the seasons) being the most common.

  6. Spenserian sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The Spenserian sonnet is a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. [1] A Spenserian sonnet consists of fourteen lines, which are broken into four stanzas: three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. [2] It uses iambic pentameter. [3]

  7. Sonnet 77 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 77 is the midpoint in the sequence of 154 sonnets. The fact that it is about a mirror may be relevant to its placing. Edmund Spenser mentions mirrors at the midpoint of his sequence, Amoretti, Sonnet 45 of 89: "Leaue lady in your glasse of christall clene, / Your goodly selfe for euermore to vew". [7]

  8. Complaints (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Some of the sonnets in this section, and the final Visions of Petrarch, had earlier versions in A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings (1569) translated by Spenser (and others) from the original by Jan van der Noot. [13]

  9. Sonnet 54 - Wikipedia

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    In Sonnet 54's third line "The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,” we see a reference to Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, Sonnet 26, the first line of which is "Sweet is the rose, but growes upon a brere." This reference is just one of many which help to "proclaim Shakespeare's deepest literary values and his recurrent aesthetic convictions."