Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Daphnaida (1591) The Daphnaida (1591) is an elegy "upon the death of the noble and virtuous Douglas Howard, daughter and heir of Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and wife of Arthur Gorges, Esquire." Gorges was a sea captain and a kinsman of Sir Walter Raleigh. He served on Raleigh's expedition to the the Azores in 1597. This elegy, dealing with Douglas, who was married at thirteen and who died at nineteen, is rather conventional and unimpassioned. Spenser to some extent imitates Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, but instead of Chaucer's octosyllabic couplets, this piece ...
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