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These conflicts are never resolved, but continue on endlessly as the poet is continually frustrated by the rejection of his beloved or his inability to reconcile spiritual and physical love. While Petrarch finds some semblance of resolution in rejection of physical love and the subsequent death of his beloved, and Renaissance Petrarchism tends to ignore resolution and glorify the state of indeterminacy, Spenser finds his own unique solution. He eventually moves away from the constant transformation and self-absorption of the Petrarchan love situation, and towards the "peace and rest Spenser finds in the sacred world of marriage". He represents the Protestant conception of marriage, celebrating it as a sanctuary in which two people can find peace and rest in a mutual love covenant, in which spiritual and physical love can exist in harmony rather than as contraries.

207:, which fell on May 19. These sonnets tend to draw even more heavily on daily scriptural readings than the preceding 75. For example, Sonnet 82, which was written for the feast of the Ascension is full of allusions to the Ascension, especially in its final couplet: "Whose loft argument uplifting me, / shall lift you vp vnto an high degree". The sonnets from the period before Pentecost are characterized by a painful and anxious sense of expectation. With the happiness of marriage in view, the speaker still suffers from the current state of separation. This feeling is appropriate to the liturgical season, in which Christians eagerly await unification with God's spirit, which he sends down to them on Pentecost. Sonnet 87 contains the line, "Thus I the time with expectation spend". 27: 80:. "The volume memorializes Spenser's courtship of Elizabeth Boyle, a young, well-born Anglo-Irish woman, and the couple's wedding on June 11, 1594". In the sonnets of Amoretti Spenser succeeds in "immortalizing the name of his bride to be ... by devices of word play". In these cycles of sonnets, Spenser chronicles the progress of his love for his beloved, Elizabeth Boyle and then records his marriage to her. He even writes about his breakup with wife (sonnet 34) in 215:

a smooth cadence and flow that tends to blur the distinctions within Petrarchan paradox rather than sharply separating the contraries. This correlates well with Spenser's goal of moving beyond the paradoxes and conflicts of love to the reconciliation and harmony embodied in marriage. "Spenser's working together of allusions and attitudes from both Petrarchist sources and scriptural loci intimates a poetic and a personal harmony, which in

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are viewed in this liturgical context, one sees that Spenser's Petrarchan allusions and use of Petrarchan precedents cannot be reduced run-of-the-mill imitation. He adapts Petrarchan models and uses them to create connections to the day's scripture themes and imagery. In addition, he treats them with

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in 1594. The Pre-Lenten and Lenten sonnets, while somewhat conventional on the surface, contain multi-layers of "humor, salaciousness, irony, parody, and ultimately travesty" beneath the surface. The Easter sonnets take on a more serious, devotional tone, climaxing with a celebration of marriage as a

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In addition, the Petrarchan tradition tends to be obsessed with the instability and discontinuity of the love situation. The speaker's feelings, thoughts, and motives continually change and shift. The love situation is fraught with egotism, conflict, and continual transformations within the speaker.

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conceits". Apart from the general Neoplatonic conceit of spiritual love in opposition to physical love, he borrows specific images and metaphors, including those that portray the beloved or love itself as cruel tormenter. Many critics, in light of what they see as his overworking of old themes, view

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The sequence of correspondences to daily scripture readings is not perfectly consecutive or uninterrupted, though. Sonnets 28–33 are an exception in that they bear no resemblance to the scripture readings from the days to which they could correspond. Larsen suggests that perhaps Spenser was not at

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Sonnets 52–53 are not related to a scriptural source either. Larsen points out that Sonnet 53 suggests travel through its explicit descriptions of absence from the beloved: "from presence of my dearest deare exylde" and "So I her absens will my penaunce make". This seems to support his claim that

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for specific dates in 1594. "Their conceits, themes, ideas, imagery, words, and sometimes their rhetorical structure consistently and successively match like particulars in these daily readings". Of the scriptural selections from a particular day, Spenser generally made use of the daily psalms or

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becomes his ultimate preoccupation and goal”. This provides a sharp contrast to the focus of other Renaissance sonneteers, who tend to dwell on the indeterminacy and conflict of the lover's plight. Examining the underlying structure of the sequence and its religious parallels provides one key to

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breaks with conventional love poetry in a number of ways. In most sonnet sequences in the Petrarchan tradition, the speaker yearns for a lover who is sexually unavailable. Not only is there a conflict between spiritual and physical love, but the love object is often already married; it is an

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With these exceptions, the correspondences run through Sonnet 75, which falls on April 7, the Sunday after Easter. Sonnets 76–89 correspond to the period from May 3 – May 17, the beginning of a new cycle of second lessons at morning prayer through the day before the Vigil of the feast of

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home during the days 19–24 of February and had no access to scriptural resources because most bibles published at this time were not very portable. These sonnets tend to make more blatant and unoriginal use of Petrarchan conceits, and are more conventional and flat than the other poems.

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has been largely overlooked and unappreciated by critics, who see it as inferior to other major Renaissance sonnet sequences in the Petrarchan tradition. In addition, it has been overshadowed by Spenser's other works, most notably

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adulterous love. "Spenser's innovation was to dedicate an entire sequence to a woman he could honorably win". Elizabeth Boyle was an unmarried woman, and their love affair eventually ended in marriage.

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The sonnets begin on January 23 and end on May 17, and appear to be written for the period leading up to Spenser's wedding to Elizabeth Boyle on June 11. Sonnet 22 corresponds to

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Sunday, and the 46 intervening sonnets generally match up with the scripture readings prescribed for the 46 days of the feast of

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covenant of grace in which the betrothed overcome the difficulties of lust and passion and are united in grace and mutual love.

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and Elizabeth Boyle: Her Names Immortalized". Spenser Studies, New York, AMS Press, Inc., Vol.23, 2008, 309.

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This article is about the set of poems by Edmund Spenser. For the visual motif associated with angels, see

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in the 16th century. The cycle describes his courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle.

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Spenser as being a less original and important sonneteer than contemporaries such as

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and establishing Spenser as one of the most important sixteenth-century sonneteers.

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readings, often drawing upon the Gospel or Epistle for Sundays or feast days.

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were written to correspond with the scriptural readings prescribed by the

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However, Spenser also revised the tradition that he was drawing from.

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draw heavily on authors of the Petrarchan tradition, most obviously

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Amoretti and Epithalamion. Written not long since by Edmunde Spenser

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lack of correspondence might be explained by Spenser's travels.

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Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition

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Greene, Ronald. "Spenser and Contemporary Vernacular Poetry".

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Greene, Ronald. "Spenser and Contemporary Vernacular Poetry".

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Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition

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