Amoretti and Epithalamion
By Edmund Spenser · Running time 02:12:18 · Single author, Elegies & Odes
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses, was successfully terminated by the marriage celebrated in the Epithalamion. As these poems were entered in the Stationers' Registers on the 19th of November, 1594, we may infer that they cover a period of time extending from the end of 1592 to the summer of 1594. It is possible, however, that these last dates may be a year too late, and that Spenser was married in 1593. We cannot be sure of the year, but we know, from the 266th verse of the Epithalamion, that
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Four HymnsEdmund Spenser · 01:11:35
- Amoretti: A sonnet sequenceEdmund Spenser · 1:51:39
- Faerie Queene Book 1Edmund Spenser · 5:22:07
- Faerie Queene Books 6 & 7Edmund Spenser · 5:32:04
- Faerie Queene Book 5Edmund Spenser · 5:29:33
- Faerie Queene Book 4Edmund Spenser · 5:18:57
- Faerie Queene Book 3Edmund Spenser · 6:26:56
- Faerie Queene Book 2Edmund Spenser · 6:22:50