Navoi innovation university faculty of philology and language teaching

Amoretti and Epithalamion and Contribution to Literature
Amoretti and Epithalamion is similar to The Faerie Queene because it was dedicated to woman. However, Spenser did not write this to gain political favor, to teach, entertain, or gain fame. Spenser wrote Amoretti and Epithalamion to his wife Elizabeth Boyle. Amoretti means 'little loves' in Italian, and it is composed of a series of Sonnets in the Petrarchan tradition.
This is not unusual for the time, except for the fact that Spenser wrote sonnets for his wife. Typically sonnets were written for an unattainable, cruel, and distant lady, and they were always written to someone who is not the writer's wife (Oxford Reference, 2022). However, Spenser breaks this tradition by celebrating Courtly Love in his courtship with Elizabeth Boyle.
The Spenserian Sonnet boasts a different rhyme scheme from that of the famous Shakespearean Sonnet, as it is an earlier adaptation of the Petrarchan Sonnet. However, the form of the Spenserian Sonnet is not unique to Spenser as contemporaries like Sir Philip Sydney use the exact same meter and rhyme scheme. It is different in the content because poets like Sydney continued the Petrarchan tradition of Courtly Love, whereas Spenser dedicated his sonnets to his wife. Moreover, sonnets typically described the beloved's physical beauty, and although Spenser does so, it's a common theme for him to praise her mind and virtue her most important qualities. Spenserian Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee. What makes them unique is their content, in that although they deal with themes of courtly love but are not adulterous. They also tend to focus on both the physical and the inner beauty of the lady. Spenser's most famous sonnet, Sonnet 75, describes how he writes his loves name in the sand, but the sea washes it away. His love says that her life is just as brief and when she dies, her name will disappear from the world. Spenser rebukes her and tells her that her name and their love will be immortalized forever in his song. Spenser was correct, as his sonnet is still read today, and Elizabeth Boyle has not been forgotten, nor has Spenser's love for her.
However, Epithalamion is Spenser's greatest work, outside of The Faerie Queene. It details Spenser's wedding day, comprised of 24 stanzas, each one documenting an hour of the day, from beginning to end. The meter and varying lengths of lines is what makes Epithalamion musical. What truly sets this poem apart from all other English poetry is Spenser's ability to convey and express joy. The Irish landscape was a great inspiration for Spenser, pixabay. Spenser's joys were short-lived. The relationship between the Irish and their English colonizers was contentious in the 16th century. Spenser, though he loved the Irish countryside and pastoral life, did not care for the Irish people. He likely saw them as Papists, therefore enemies of the state. He eventually became the Sherriff of Cork and owned the small castle of Kilcolman. He returned to England to publish his second volume of The Faerie Queene in a final attempt to gain a seat at the royal court. However, he was unsuccessful, and while he was away the Irish rebelled and burned down Kilcolman. Ben Johnson reported that he and Elizabeth's infant daughter died in the fire.

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