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noun - a song in celebration of a marriage
A song in celebration of a wedding; an epithalamium.
PROTHALAMION - Prothalamion, the commonly used name of Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine So...
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A song in celebration of a wedding an epithalamium. |
a song or poem celebrating a forthcoming wedding. |
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Prothalamion, the commonly used name of Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset, is a poem by Edmund Spenser (15521599), one of the important poets of the Tudor Period in England. Published in 1596 (see 1596 in poetry), it is a nuptial song that he composed that year on the occasion of the twin marriage of the daughters of the Earl of Worcester, Elizabeth Somerset and Katherine Somerset, to Henry Guildford and William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre respectively. * Prothalamion is written in the conventional form of a marriage song. The poem begins with a description of the River Thames where Spenser finds two beautiful maidens. The poet proceeds to praise them and wishing them all the blessings for their marriages. The poem begins with a fine description of the day when on which he is writing the poem:* Calm was the day and through the trembling airThe sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play. * * The poet is standing near |