The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
established both standing and reserve units of the army, and created the fi rst English navy. By 897, he had established a syste ...
Alisoun is presented as an object of sexual desire, she is also endowed with her own power in the poem. She has not yet acquiesc ...
called midrash to form a systematic method for inter- preting the Old Testament scriptures in which differ- ent levels of meanin ...
works use a variety of means to help engage readers in such interpretive processes, means ranging from the generic conventional ...
informal alliterative poems. Formal poems have an alliterative pattern of aa, ax, meaning that each line of verse contains four ...
tion in the form of a 100-year gap. It has been pro- posed that missing manuscripts could have been preserved in monastic librar ...
progress of proper Christian love in marriage, the dem- onstration of poetic virtuosity, and even the poet Spenser’s means of ac ...
Klaske, Carol V. “Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion of 1595: Structure, Genre, Numerology.” In ELR 8 (1978): 271–295. Lever, J ...
with marriage and the marriage bed. EDMUND SPENSER’s SONNET SEQUENCE loosely follows the liturgical calendar, with the 21 sonnet ...
Amoretti: Sonnet 15 (“Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle”) EDMUND SPENSER (1595) In Sonnet 15 from EDMUND SPENSER’s A ...
“my sweet Saynt” (l. 4), following in the style of Italian and French love lyrics and SONNETs. Instead of com- paring her to a g ...
See also AMORETTI (OVERVIEW), ITALIAN (PETRARCHAN) SONNET. Janice M. Bogstad Amoretti: Sonnet 37 (“What guyle is this, that thos ...
Within the framework of a poetic reading, critics assert that the lover is demonstrating the knowledge that he, or both of them, ...
Amoretti: Sonnet 64 (“Comming to kisse her lyps—such grace I found”) EDMUND SPENSER (1595) In Sonnet 64 of EDMUND SPENSER’s Amor ...
What proceeds after these initial statements is a lov- ing description of marriage. The fi rst two quatrains play with the word ...
modifi es it. Although the poem begins with an image of a hunter, the main subject of the fi rst complete sen- tence of the poem ...
Spenserian sonnet and blends the poet’s love for the three Elizabeths in his life: his mother, his queen, and his beloved. The s ...
Acknowledging the multiple narrative paths in this sonnet, critics have praised Spenser’s mastery in simul- taneously referring ...
9), and in the third stanza, he reinforces his steadfast- ness, as he would not leave “Nother for payn nor smart” (l. 16). These ...
the present by linking it to an illustrious past—became the fi rst popular genres of Anglo-Norman literature in England. The inc ...
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