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Re: C C T
You're so right C C T. Suchgifted he was that he drew admiration from all and sundry. The happenings of a day of marriage from before morn to night and the celestial atmosphere of the celebration is simply outstanding. Thanks for your observation 
posted by
anib
on September 2, 2022 at 6:20 AM
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Very gifted, amazing what poetry will flow from a poet in an emotional situation.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 2, 2022 at 1:14 AM
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Re: Dear Aba Brother- an excellent post.
Hello Sis, good to know you and yours are alright, ans so is mine. Thank you. It's just that I get worried when I don't see you for a while. Hope your back has mended a bit... Spenser originally wanted the poem to be 12 volumes. As such what we know about Epithalamion is only a part. Spenser's another poem, The Faerie Quenne happens to be the longest in the English language. When he read this out to Queen Elizabeth I, she loved it so much that she announced he be awarded 100 pounds. And Burghley, a minister of the Queen felt treatened it may reveal certain misdeeds of his and said, "What! A hundred pounds for a song". Spenser however, later was given a pension for a lifetime from thr day of hid birth.
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posted by
anib
on September 1, 2022 at 9:55 PM
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Dear Aba Brother- an excellent post.
I have not read this poem but my interest was piqued because this work was unfamiliar to me. I had to look it up. They say it is one of the longest poems in the English language and that Spencer had intended to write even more books of it! I will have to take a look later. I found only that it was written for the "Queene" and is allegorical on several levels. How much more you know about it than I could ever learn! Like the numerical meanings, for instance. Thank you for broadening my literary horizons once again, dear friend and guru. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 1, 2022 at 8:04 PM
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