Amoretti sonnet 79 edmund spenser biography
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Amoretti Overview Edmund Spenser
Last Updated on Mon, 05 Feb 2024 | British Poetry
(1595) Edmund Spenser's Petrarchan sonnet sequence Amoretti was one of his later works, published in 1595, the year after his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, the only partially imaginary inspiration for the piece.
Amoretti sonnet 79 edmund spenser biography
It consists of a dedication, introductory poem, 89 sonnets, and four shorter pieces detailing Cupid's intervention in the love experience. The sonnets follow a male lover's seemingly conventional pursuit of his female beloved, culminating in a disappointment and followed by a four-part poem labeled anacreontics (sexual love).
The anacreontics present very conventional portraits of the relationship between Cupid and the lover, drawn from Marot, Tasso, Theocritus, Alciati, and two madrigals. However, Amoretti was published along with a very different epic poem, Epithalamion, following the triumph of the lover's wedding day with his beloved, from his predawn preparations through the evening a