An epithalamium (/ˌɛpɪθəˈleɪmiəm/; Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον epithalamion from ἐπί epi "upon," and θάλαμος thalamos nuptial chamber) is a poem written...

popular in this era. Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the...

the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which is sung at the nuptial threshold. He is one of the winged love...

Cambridge Period Elizabethan era Genres Epic poem eclogue sonnet elegy hymn epithalamium beast fable poetical autobiography political treatise history translation...

uses formal language with Paris. Other forms in the play include an epithalamium by Juliet, a rhapsody in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an elegy by...

in the English language, using the word in its strict form, were the Epithalamium and Prothalamium of Edmund Spenser. In the 17th century, the original...

incorporated in many homoerotic works. In FRAGMENT: Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)...

Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods: Hera and Leto Theocritus, Idylls 18: An Epithalamium for Helen. See West 1983, pp. 1–3; Meisner, p. 1; Athanassakis and Wolkow...

constitute a great loss. Ovid also mentions some occasional poetry (Epithalamium, dirge, even a rendering in Getic) which does not survive. Also lost...

ejaculations of love, when, lacking a signifier to name the object of its epithalamium, it employs the crudest trickery of the imaginary. "I'll eat you up....