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Keywords: Poem, Spenser, Edmund, Wedding, Celebrate

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(LTC) A song or poem in honour of a marriage. By tradition it would have been sung outside the bride's room on her wedding-night.

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a poem celebrating a wedding

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a poem written in celebration of marriage.

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A poem written to celebrate a marriage. One of the best known epithalamions was written by Edmund Spenser in 1594 on the occasion of his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. See also prothalamion.

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In ancient Greece an epithalamion was composed to honor a newlywed couple. The word derives from the Greek epithalamios which means "of a wedding", epi (of) + thalamos (bridal chamber.) The epithalamion was revived as a poetic form in 1595 by Edmund Spenser in Amoretti And Epithalamion, a composition of 89 sonnets, a lyric conclusion, and a 433 line epithalamion.

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