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Prothalamion

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Prothalamion
Spenser’s poem celebrating the double marriage of the two daughters of the Earl of Worcester. [Br. Poetry: Haydn & Fuller, 615]
See : Marriage


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In both Colin Clouts Come Home Again and Prothalamion, the poetic description of landscape occasions fruitful meditation on time and history.
Quite apart from the fact that Spenser wrote no georgics," Burrow argues, "the Virgilian career pattern cannot accommodate the Fowre Hymns, the Amoretti, the Prothalamion or the Complaints," which "appearing in 1591, between the two installments of The Faerie Queene.
In succeeding chapters, Cheney traces the poet's fictionalizing of his career in The Faerie Queene, Amoretti and Epithalamion, Fowre Hymnes and Prothalamion.
 
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