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The Rhetoric of Love: Voice in the Amoretti and the Songs and Sonets.
Quarterly Journal of Speech (1982)
  • Arlene Okerlund, San Jose State University
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.
Publication Date
1982
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Citation Information
Arlene Okerlund. "The Rhetoric of Love: Voice in the Amoretti and the Songs and Sonets." Quarterly Journal of Speech Vol. 68 Iss. 1 (1982)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/arlene_okerlund/4/