Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion Questions & Answers

by Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser wrote the Amoretti (Italian for "Cupids") ostensibly to woo Elizabeth Boyle, a young lady whom he met during his tenure in Ireland. Spenser shared these poems with Elizabeth for over a year before she consented to marry him. The sonnets follow a progression from Spenser as desperate…