The Rhetoric of Love: Voice in the Amoretti and the Songs and Sonets.

Arlene Okerlund, San Jose State University

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Abstract

Focuses on the use of rhetoric in the poem Amoretti, by Edmund Spenser. Indication of formality with which the speaker of the poem approaches his beloved; Celebration of the perfection of the lady with abstractions in the poem; Comparison between various sonnets of John Donne and Edmund Spenser.