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A Farewell to Arms (poem)

This article is about the 1590 poem by George Peele. For the 1929 novel of the same name, see A Farewell to Arms. For other uses, see A Farewell to Arms (disambiguation).

A Farewell to Arms
To Queen Elizabeth
by George Peele
Portrait of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley, in whose honor Peele wrote A Farewell to Arms
LanguageEnglish
SeriesPolyhymnia
FormSonnet
MeterIambic pentameter
Rhyme schemeABABCC
Publication date1590

A Farewell to Arms is an occasional sonnet written by George Peele. It is the coda of Peele's Polyhymnia, written for the Accession Day tilt of 1590.[1] The prior thirteen parts of Polyhymnia are each blank verse descriptions of pairs of contestants with vague impressions of their combat, though Peele does not name the victors. A Farewell to Arms then commemorates the tenure and retirement of Sir Henry Lee as the Queen's Champion. Lee had been the Queen's Champion since the first Accession Day tilts, possibly as early as 1559. In 1590 the position passed to the Earl of Cumberland.[2]

  1. ^ Braithwaite, William Stanley (1907). The Book of Elizabethan Verse. Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  2. ^ "George Peele". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 31 May 2022.

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