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Zepheria (; STC ): A Critical Edition by Margaret Christian INTRODUCTION EPHERIA is an anonymous Elizabethan lyric sequence consist- ing of a dedicatory poem of thirty-three lines and forty num- Zbered ‘‘canzons,’’ mostly of fourteen lines. Originally published at the height of the sonnet vogue in , Zepheria is fascinating but not first-rate, a fair target for Sir John Davies’s ‘‘Gullinge Sonnets.’’ Both derivative and outrageous (canzon : ‘‘ ’Mongst Delian Nymphs in An- gels vniuersitie / Thou my Zepheria liu’st matriculated’’), it combines allusions to previous sequences with verbal and prosodic experimen- tation. The title page specifies that Zepheria was ‘‘Printed by the Widdowe Orwin, for N. L. and John Busbie.’’ Joan Orwin was the wife of printers John Kingston (active –), George Robinson (active –), and Thomas Orwin (active –) and mother of printer Felix Kingston (active –). On her own, she printed a volume of Cicero’s De In the original edition, the word ‘‘canzon’’ appears at the head of each poem with a final period: ‘‘Canzon. .’’ According to the OED, ‘‘canzon,’’ ‘‘canzone,’’ and ‘‘canzonet,’’ all meaning ‘‘song’’ (or ‘‘little song’’)
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 1, 2003
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