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Hace 1 día · Setting Shakespeare in the outer two movements with Andrew Marvell and Edmund Spenser in the centre, Bennett creates an immediately compelling sense of atmosphere. The tolling of tubular bell that commences The isle is full of noises , returns at the close of the opening song, with the austere beauty of the writing akin to Judith Bingham, another British composer with a gift for choral music.
Hace 5 días · "Amoretti: Sonnet 76" by Edmund Spenser explores themes of love, beauty, and desire through the persona's admiration of a woman's virtues and physical appearance. The sonnet portrays the woman's bosom as a repository of love and delight, a sanctuary where the persona finds happiness and pleasure.
Hace 1 día · Made possible by a collaborative NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (2020-23), the project adapts for teaching and public use in Virtual Reality a highly detailed 3-D digital model of Kilcolman Castle, the late-medieval Irish building compound known for being the adopted home of the early modern English poet and colonial administrator Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599).
Hace 4 días · “Amoretti XXX: My Love is like to ice, and I to fire” first appeared in 1594 in Edmund Spenser’s sonnet sequence, Amoretti.The poem is celebrated for its exploration of love’s paradoxical nature through a conceit – an extended metaphor – that compares the speaker’s burning passion to his beloved’s icy coldness.
Hace 5 días · Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin: And having harrow'd hell, didst bring away. Captivity thence captive, us to win: This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin, And grant that we for whom thou diddest die, Being with thy dear blood clean wash 'd from sin, May live for ever in felicity.
Hace 2 días · Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590, 1596)—an allegorical romance epic that interlaces the quests of various knights in the court of the queen Gloriana—begins with Redcross: the fledgling hero of holiness who struggles to live up to his name.
Hace 5 días · Edmund Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”: “A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.” William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” William Wordsworth, “The Prelude”: “The frost performs its secret ministry.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”: “But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”
