The prothalamion contains a final record of his disappointments in England. |
The weekend was an occasion of intense happiness, a kind of prothalamion, a nuptial song to the marriage of Michael and Deryn later that summer. |
Like Eliot, Hemingway contrasts harsh realities by evoking the ideal celebrated in Edmund Spenser's Thames setting for his Prothalamion. |
Among the minor poems of Spenser the most delightful were his Prothalamion and epithalamion. |