Epithalamium in Elizabethan Poetry

VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
KAUNAS FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC PHILOLOGY

SIGITA SUBAČIŪTĖ

EPITHALAMIUM IN ENGLISH ELIZABETHAN POETRY: SPENSER AND DONNE

BA THESIS
English Philology (State Code 61204H108)

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VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
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EPITALAMA ANGLŲ KARALIENĖS ELŽBIETOS EPOCHOS POEZIJOJE: SPENSERIS IR DONNE’AS

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
1 the HERMENEUTIC theory of interpretation 6
2 EPITHALAMIUM: FROM FOLK SONG TRADITION TO LITERARY HERITAGE 9 2.1 Classical epithalamic tradition: Greek and Roman epithalamia 10 2.1.1 Sapphic epithalamium: the model of epithalamic convention 10 2.1.2 The blending of Greek epithalamic motifs and Roman wedding tradition: Catullus 61, 62 and 64 11 2.1.3 Rhetorical Latin epithalamium: the continuation of traditional motifs in a different form 13 2.2 The Medieval epithalamium: wedding songs in the light of sanctity 14 2.3 Renaissance epithalamium 15 2.3.1 Neo-Latin epithalamium 16 2.3.2 Italian vernacular epithalamium: original poems with Classical elements 17 2.3.3 French vernacular epithalamium: fusion of conventions and motifs 18
3 the ELIZABETHAN model of epithalamium 19 3.1 Spenserian epithalamic patterns

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