Love in Spenser’s Amoretti

Jiancheng Wang, Zhengshuan Li

Foreign Language Department, Baoding University, Baoding, China.
School of Foreign Languages, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China.

DOI: 10.4236/als.2014.21006                

Abstract

Being a sonnet cycle of love with a detailed description of the lady’s physical beauty and the lover’s happy feelings, Amorettiis a story of love between earthlings which is aimed at marriage. Meanwhile, Spenser sanctifies the love by Platonizing and Christianizing the lady. Thus it is clear that the love in the mind of Spenser is not just an earthly one or a heavenly one separately, but both, and, a combination of both earthly love and sacred love.

Keywords

Love; Earthly Love; Sacred Love; Amoretti; Edmund Spenser

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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