Spenser's Concept of Love in Amorett

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
85-98

Abstract

Spenser's Amoretti, published together with Epithalamion in 1595, is an Elizabethan love-sonnet sequence in which he expressed his personal feeling to an unmarried woman, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he later married and celebrated his marriage in Epithalamion. Like other Renaissance sonneteers, Spenser imitated the pioneer love-sonnet sequence poet, Petrarch. Yet Spenser's Amoretti seems to have some features that are not to be found in other love poems of his both predecessors and successors. The aim of this paper is to consider Spenser's concept and values of love as expressed in these love sonnets, Amoretti, and how they differ from those expressed in other Renaissance love-sonnet sequences and from those of Petrarch. The Amoretti has been subject to some controversial views. Critics differ as to the subject matter, lady's character, concept, thought, feeling and mood revealed in these love poems.

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Kaday, T., & طلعت. (2025). Spenser’s Concept of Love in Amorett. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 35(42), 85–98. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2005.36539