10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPITHALAMIA»
Discover the use of
epithalamia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
epithalamia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Spenser Encyclopedia
Some NeoLatin poets(including GeorgeBuchanan) composed epithalamia,
asdidmembers of the Pléiade. The fact thatmany of these French epithalamia
were writtenfor royal weddings testifies to theinterrelationship of literary and
social ...
2
Latinitas Perennis: Appropriation by Latin Literature
This view is supported by Grotius' reserving a separate book for his epithalamia,
and also because most Latin epithalamia from Holland are long poems written in
hexameters, and are therefore prestigious. The metre also shows that the poets ...
Wim Verbaal, Yanick Maes, Jan Papy, 2009
3
The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity
Even the briefest glance at the presence of gods in Roman epithalamia,
especially those following Catullus, reveals that the poets' choices of which gods
to include in their epithalamia may reflect more about the poets' literary designs
and ...
4
Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs
1 love is represented in Sappho«s poetry. Her epithalamia present later
commentators with an opportunity to view archaic marriage ceremonies through
the gaze of a woman, to investigate a genre which is distinctively woman-
oriented.
Lyn Hatherly Wilson, 2013
5
Mourning and Panegyric: The Poetics of Pastoral Ceremony
Epithalamia Awry: Mallarme's Herodiade and Hart Crane's "For the Marriage of
Faustus and Helen" I The English epithalamium became an object of parody, as
Donne's and Crashaw's poems attest, almost as soon as it was recognized as a ...
Celeste Marguerite Schenck, 1988
6
A Private Passion: 19th-century Paintings and Drawings from ...
Venus Epithalamia, 1871 Watercolor, gouache, metallic gold paint, and 1/arnish
on linen prepared with Chinese white 14'/4x 2o%in. (37.52: 2619 cm) Signed and
dated in watercolor on pedestal, lower left: E. B. 7. MDCCCLXXI Inscribed in ...
Stephan Wolohojian, Anna Tahinci, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 2003
7
Re-reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission
9 Along with Page and others, I am presuming here that Sappho's epithalamia
are actual songs for actual ceremonies on Lesbos,80 but they cannot be pressed
into service to turn Sappho into a professional music teacher. Dover and others ...
8
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The term epithalamion (Lat. epithalamium) categorizes texts concerning marriage
, but epithalamia are as varied in their structures and tonalities as the occasions
they commemorate. They range from poems that sedulously engage with norms ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
The term epithalamion (Lat. epithalamium) categorizes texts concerning marriage
, but epithalamia are as varied in their structures and tonalities as the occasions
they commemorate. They range from poems that sedulously engage with norms ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
10
Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches
These ceremonial effects of rhythm, repetition, and alliteration are more striking,
naturally, in poems that are closer to public statement and to social situations.
Hence one finds a noticeably high proportion of such effects in the epithalamia.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPITHALAMIA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
epithalamia is used in the context of the following news items.
A Point of View: The Winter Queen of Bohemia
... young couple on the streets of London. John Donne's was only one among dozens of extravagant Epithalamia, or wedding poems, published ... «BBC News, Feb 13»
An embarrassing poem for Chelsea Clinton's wedding
It must be faced that epitaphs are generally more memorable than epithalamia. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who did at least manage to get ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 10»
