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epithalamium

Genre of poetry or song devised for a wedding, and specifically to be performed outside the married couple's room. First examples survive from Ancient Greece (for example, by the Roman poet Catullus), but the best examples are from the Renaissance, including the English poet Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion. Later poets, including the English John Dryden and Percy Bysshe Shelley, followed this example and, in the 20th Century, so did the English-born US poet W H Auden.



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The reader might wish to read Nevitt's essay that further discusses the epithalamium, or wedding poem (see "Rembrandt's Wedding Feast of Samson" in A.
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland by Golahny, Amy / Renaissance Quarterly
The third chapter "marks a change in focus which is continued in chapter four, from a classical to a Christian horizon, and also pairs an early epithalamium and a wedding sermon together" (7).
Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. (Reviews) by Cohee, Gail E. / Renaissance Quarterly
48) Gaza is of great importance for the history of marriage oratory since he was the first to translate into Latin the precepts for the epithalamium written by the ancient rhetorician pseudo-Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
Marriage, sexual pleasure, and learned brides in the wedding orations ... by D'Elia, Anthony F. / Renaissance Quarterly
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