Notes to the introduction
1.Cortlandt Van Winkle, Spenser's Epithalamion (NewYork,1926), p.8.
2. 'Idyll' XVIII from The Poems of Theocritus. tr. Anna Rist
(The University of North Carolina Press, 1978).
3. Kenneth Quinn, Catullus: An
Interpretation (London: Batsford, 1972), p.260.
4.The Poems of Catullus, 61, tr. Peter Whigham (Penguin Classics, 1966).
5.VanWinkle, p.12.
6. Epithalamium of Honorius and Maria, 121-22, in Claudian(I), tr. Maurice Platnauer, the Loeb Classical Library(London,1922).
7.Epithalamium Honorius, 173-74(line divisions mine).
8.Ibid.,193-94.
9.Ibid., 202-3.
10.Ibid., 286-88.
11. Alan Cameron, Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius. (Oxford,1970), p.194.
12.Van Winkle, p.17.
13.James A.S. McPeek, 'The Major Source of Spenser's Epithalamion'. JEGP 35(1936), 192-95.
14.Rémi Belleau, Epithalame Sur le Mariage le Monseigneur le Duc de Lorraine et de Madame Claude Fille du Roy. Canté par les nymphes des Seine et de Meuse, McPeek, 207.
15.Marc-Clande de Buttet, Epithalame aux Nosse de Tres Magnanime Philibert de Savoi et de res verutueuse Princess Maruguerite de France, Duchesse de Berri, McPeek, 185.
16.McPeek, 212.
17. Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of The Courtier, Book IV, tr. George Bull(Penguin Classics, 1967).
18. Alastair Fowler, Triumphal forms: Structural patterns in Elizabethan poetry, chaps. 2 and 3 (Cambridge,1970).
19. The Triumphs of Petrarch, p.vi, tr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins (The University of Chicago Press,1962).
20. The Triumphs p.45.
21.Helena Shire, A Preface to Spenser. (London: Longman,1978) p.77.
22.Fowler, p.161.
23.Van Winkle, p.20.
24. 1 and 2 stanzas, text from English Epithalamies, ed. Robert H. Case (Chicago,1896) p.1.
25.Judith M. Kennedy, A Critical edition of Young's Translation of George of Montemayor's 'Diana' and Gil Polo's 'Enamoured Diana', p.xvii (0xford,1968).
26. Kennedy, p.lixn. and p.448n.
27. Case, Epithalamies, p.4..
28. The following summary is based on Enid Welsford's 'Introduction' P.67, to her Spenser: Fowre Hymns Epithalamion: A Study of Edmund Spenser's Doctrine of Love (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967); and Thomas M. Green's 'Spenser and the Epithalamic Convention', in Edmund Spenser's Poetry, ed. Hugh Maclean(New York, Norton,1968).
29. Paul W.Miller cites 'eight distinguishing epithalamies' between 1594-1635, in his 'The Decline of the English Epithalamion', Texas Studies: Literature and Language, 12(1970). 30. Case, Epithalamies, p.74n. Donne's two other epithalamia are An Epithalamion on Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine and the Lady Elizabeth, Being Married on St Valentine's Day (1613), and Nuptial Song, relating to the marriage of the Earl of Somerset and the Countess of Essex, (1613).
31. As to the date of its composition, see The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, L. C. Martin (Oxford, 1956) pp.509-10n. This and another song, A Nuptial Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady(1625), are both in Hesperides, or The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq
.(1648). The other major epithalamion of Herrick's, Connubi in Flores, or the Well-wishes at Weddings, includes some exhortations to the bride concerning household matters.
32. This poem is in his Under-Woods: Consisting of Divers Poems by Ben Jonson (1640). As to its composition, see Ben
Jonson, vol. XI, ed. C. H. Herford Percy and Evelyn Simpson(Oxford,1952), p.97n. Jonson's two other epithalamia are at the conclusions of his two masques; Hymenaei, or the Solemnities of Masques and Barriers etc.(1606), and The Description of the Masque: With the severall Songs, celebrating the happy Marriage of John, Lord Rasey, Viscount Haddington, etc.(1608).
33.This poem is contained in British Museum Ms. Harl. 6917. As to its composition, see The Poems: English Latin and Greek of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin (Oxford, 1927),p.406n.
34.The following schemes of time symbolism structured by stanzas and lines including Day and Night matching were first discovered by A. Kent Hieatt. See his Short Time's Endless Monument: The symbolism of the number in Edmund Spenser's 'Epithalamion' (Columbia University Press, 1960). The problem is discussed in Enid Welsford's Spenser; Fowre Hymnes Epithalamion: A Study of Edmund Spenser's Doctrine of Love (Oxford,1977), Appendix II 'Number Symbolism in Epithalamion'. The whole patterns are examined and modified by Alastair Fowler in his Triumphal forms: Structural patterns in Elizabethan Poetry (Cambridge, 1970), pp.161-73.
35.AIstair Fowler, Spenser and the Number of Time (London, 1964), p.281n.
36.Hieatt, Short Time's Endless Monument, pp. 94-95n.
37.Hieatt, 'The Daughters of Horus: Order in the Stanzas of Epithalamion' in Forms and Convention in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser, ed. William Nelson (Columbia University Press, 1963).
38.Fowler, Triumphal forms, p. 166.
39.Ibid.,pp. 167-68. See pp.181-82n.
40.Ibid., pp.169-70.
41. Judah L. Stampfer, 'The Cantos of Mutability: Spenser's Last Testament of Faith', UTQ 21(1952).
42. Ricado J. Quinones, The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard University Press, 1972) p.284.
43. Sherman Hawkins, 'Mutabilitie and the Cycle of the Months' in Forms and Convention in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser.
44. Fowler, 'Six Knights of Castle Joyous', SP 56 (1959), 590-91.
45. Thomas P. Roche, Jr. The Kindly Flame: A Study of the Third and Fourth Books of Spenser's Faerie Queene (Princeton University Press, 1964), pp.80-81.
46. Fowler, Triumphal forms, p.52.
47. C. S. Lewis, Spenser's Images of Life, ed. Alastair Fowler (Cambridge University Press, 1967),p.120.
48. Lewis, p.126.
49. William C. Johnson, 'Amor and Spenser's Amoretti', ES 54(1973), 221.
50. Alexander Dunlop, 'The Unity of Spenser's Amoretti' in Silent Poetry: Essays in Numerological Analysis, ed. Alastair Fowler (London and New York, 1980). See also Fowler, Triumphal forms, pp.181-82.
51.This pattern, esp. the symmetrical arrangement from 'the sunrise'(sunset) to 'Hymen', is pointed out in Alastair Fowler's Triumphal forms, pp.105-6.
52. Fowler, Triumphal forms, pp.171-72.
53. Roche, pp.101-2.
54. Welsford, p.170n.
55. I owe the following analysis and the explanation of the symmetry to Max A. Wickert, 'Structure and Ceremony in Spenser's Epithalamion, ELH 35 (1968), 135-57; See also Fowler, Triumphal forms, pp.104-5.
56. Wickert, 'Structure and Ceremony', 140n.
57.Ibid, 138.
58. Raymond Jenkins, 'Spenser in Ireland', ELH 19 (1952), 131-42.
59. Pauline Henley, Spenser In Ireland (Cork University Press, 1928), pp.83-84.
60. Greene, 648.
61.Welsford, p.188n.