Amoretti and Epithalamium

For the first time published in 1595, the lyrical cycle of the outstanding English poet-vanity Edmund Spencer (1552-1599) "Amortti and Epithalam" occupies a special place in the history of Western European poetry of the Renaissance. Including the sonnet security, the group of "anacreontic" poems and the spectacular "epithalam", it does not so much continue the main line of Petrarchist love lyrics, but demonstrates the poet’s desire to distance himself from continental conventions. Devoting these verses to his bride Elizabeth Boyle, Spencer emphasizes the original form of the sonnets with the fundamental novelty of the ideal of love, consecrated by the bonds of church marriage, and for the first time in the history of the genre turns to the monument into a monument in honor of his own wedding.
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