| An epithalamion is by nature a threshold poem, a poem for the bride on her wedding day. |
| Four years later, in 1595, Spenser published Amoretti and Epithalamion. |
| Donne's gift of the Epithalamion to this corrupt couple is an unattractive mixture of apparent compliment and veiled criticism, laden with internal contradiction. |
| Spenser married a Cork-woman, and has enshrined her in the epithalamion, the most beautiful love-poem in the English language. |
| Epithalamium, also spelled epithalamion or epithalamy, song or poem to the bride and bridegroom at their wedding. |
| Among the minor poems of Spenser the most delightful were his Prothalamion and epithalamion. |
