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    device through which the speaker can better understand himself. Spenser similarly adapts the sonnet form to better suit his creative voice. He briefly entertains the Petrarchan trope of unrequited love though he soon rejects it‚ as in his collection Amoretti‚ which follows the speaker seducing and ultimately wedding his beloved. Further‚ his beloved sometimes has agency: she voices her concerns‚ or uses the speakers

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    THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONNET ‘A very useful book indeed‚ and one which will add to the scope of current debates about the sonnet.’ John Drakakis‚ University of Stirling In this indispensable introductory study of the Renaissance sonnet‚ Michael R.G.Spiller takes the reader on an illuminating guided tour. He begins with the invention of the sonnet in thirteenth-century Italy and traces its progress through to the time of Milton‚ showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express

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    EARLY RENAISSANCE POETRY: THE POEMS Source Text: Ferguson‚ Margaret‚ et al (eds). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Fifth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton‚ 2005. 1 Thomas Wyatt 1503 – 1542 The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor1 The long˚ love‚ that in my thought doth harbour‚˚ enduring/lodge And in mine heart doth keep his residence‚ Into my face presseth with bold pretence‚ And therein campeth‚ spreading his banner.2 She that me learneth˚

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    virgin and that she worked under the service of Venus. “Marlowe seems more interested in how to get sexual results” (222). In class we talked about how their love is described as a sexual love because they were not married like the couple was in Amoretti. Leaner was not afraid to express his feelings and concern to Hero. Leander thinks that Hero is not treating herself well enough because she is a virgin. “A variety of verbal and nonverbal expressions of love could result in‚ or at least be confused

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    TRANSLATING COLLOQUIAL IDIOMS/METAPHORS IN THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: A COMPARISON OF METAPHORICAL MEANING RETENTION IN THE SPANISH AND CATALAN TEXTS MICHAEL O’MARA Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir Michael.Omara@ucv.es 57 In spite of the novel’s position among the American Library Association’s list of the one hundred most frequently censored books‚ The Catcher in the Rye (1951)‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ is widely considered to be one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth

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    Life of Edmund Spenser

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    SPEN ser 1552-1599 I. Introduction Spenser‚ Edmund (1552?-1599)‚ great English poet‚ who bridged the medieval and Elizabethan periods‚ and who is most famous for his long allegorical romance‚ The Faerie Queene. II. Life and Works Spenser was born in London‚ where he attended the Merchant Tailor’s School. He then went on to Pembroke College‚ University of Cambridge‚ where he took a degree in 1576. In 1579 he entered the service of the English courtier Robert Dudley‚ earl of Leicester‚ and

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    Introduction: Edmund Spenser was one of the greatest poets of the Elizabethan age. He was known as the poet of the poets. In his time he was the principal poet “Divine Master Spenser” and the “Prince of Poets”. He’s still ranked with the great English poets. Life of Edmund Spenser: Edmund Spenser was born in 1552 at East Smithfield‚ near the tower of London. He was the eldest son of his parents. Spenser seemed to have at least one sister and number of brothers. His sister’s name was Sarah. His father

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    Epithalamion Stanzas 1 through 12 Epithalamion is an ode written by Edmund Spenser as a gift to his bride‚ Elizabeth Boyle‚ on their wedding day. The poem moves through the couples’ wedding day‚ from the groom’s impatient hours before dawn to the late hours of night after the husband and wife have consummated their marriage. Spenser is very methodical in his depiction of time as it passes‚ both in the accurate chronological sense and in the subjective sense of time as felt by those waiting in anticipation

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    Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti chronicles his courtship with his wife Elizabeth Boyle. It was originally published in 1595 and loosely follows the Petrarchan sonnet model. Petrarch wrote his sonnets about women that he would never be able to obtain‚ while Spenser wrote about a single woman whom he did marry. Sonnet 34 appears to describe a break in Spenser’s relationship with Elizabeth; it seems like they had a fight and Spenser is biding his time until she forgives him. Spenser uses the analogy of a

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    Ruth Baez AP/UCONN English Mr. Dodge February 5‚ 2009 The Mortality of Marriage Edmund Spenser’s “Sonnet 75” is an epithalamium regarding the mortality of marriage. The speaker acts upon his lust‚ flattering his lover with bribery and continuously asking her to marry him. The poem implies marriage in the third line‚ with the word “hand‚” because it is a synecdoche to marriage. His lover responds with the statement “taking a mortal thing [marriage] so to immortalize [her name]” is senseless

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