epithalamium

After the brilliant failure of his first theatrical venture, he dared not return to the lodging which he occupied in the Rue Grenier-sur-l'Eau, opposite to the Port-au-Foin, having depended upon receiving from monsieur the provost for his epithalamium, the wherewithal to pay Master Guillaume Doulx-Sire, farmer of the taxes on cloven-footed animals in Paris, the rent which he owed him, that is to say, twelve sols parisian; twelve times the value of all that he possessed in the world, including his trunk-hose, his shirt, and his cap.

Several poems are ascribed to Hesiod, such as the "Epithalamium of Peleus and Thetis", the "Descent of Theseus into Hades", or the "Circuit of the Earth" (which must have been connected with the story of Phineus and the Harpies, and so with the Argonaut-legend), which yet seem to have belonged to the "Catalogues".

His courtship and, in 1594, his marriage produced his sonnet sequence, called 'Amoretti' (Italian for 'Love-poems'), and his 'Epithalamium,' the most magnificent of marriage hymns in English and probably in world-literature; though his 'Prothalamium,' in honor of the marriage of two noble sisters, is a near rival to it.

Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy, at the profuse beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower, and nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.

The wistful water song of the River Calder, calling cuckoos and winsome warblers orchestrated an ecological epithalamium for the wedding in a sun-gilded, spruce-shaded sylvan glade.

What would Hopkins's superiors have made (or what did they make) of a poem such as "Epithalamium"?

Between 1594 and 1595 he moved to Leipzig, where his first musical collection was published in print: Epithalamium honori nuptiarum.

The old Venetian senator lays down a truly misogynous argument based on a vision largely shared in the 16th century, and owing to a tradition based on the ancient Greek genre of the epithalamium. The apparent violence of Della Casa's anti-uxorial stance Scarci concludes was nothing but commonplace in the author's times.

These Roman goddesses of Fate sing a prophetic epithalamium

Catullus himself adapted this wedding-song topos to his own epithalamium, Poem 62.39-47, where he places the description of the rare flower in the mouths of a chorus of maidens bemoaning the inevitable loss of virginity on the part of the bride.

But Shelley's play implies that in 1819 there is the possibility of revolution leading to distributive justice, envisaged in Prometheus Unbound, where the initial outrage of Prometheus toward Jupiter gives way to sympathy and a cosmic epithalamium.