The Poetry of Marriage: The Epithalamium in Europe and Its Development in England (University of Southern California Studies in Comparative Literature Volume II)

Tufte, Virginia. The Poetry of Marriage: The Epithalamium in Europe and Its Development in England (University of Southern California Studies in Comparative Literature Volume II). Los Angeles: Tinnon-Brown Inc., 1970. 8vo. ix, 341 pp. Green cloth with golden decorative knot on front cover. gold lettering and logo on spine. With dj. Some minor sunning to covers and spine. Book is in very good – fine condition. vg. Hardcover.

“In this book, the first of its kind, Professor Tufte discusses and evaluates all the significant works – principally though not exclusively poetic – which can be called epithalamia” (celebrating marriage) “and many lesser works as well. The mode is amazingly diverse: in it are included wedding songs, orations, devotional treaties, hymns to the Virgin, works in praise of virginity, nativity poems, and historical geographical, and patriotic poems . . . beginning about three thousand years . . .” – Front flap of dj.

Author also wrote: “High Wedlock Then Be Honored – An Anthology of Epithalamia,” “Grammar as Style” and other works. (18067) $65