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  1. interestingliterature.com

    The Elizabethan era (1558-1603) was a golden age of English poetry, drama, and song-writing, with sonnets, madrigals, and pioneering plays all being produced. Below, we introduce ten of the greatest poems of the Elizabethan age. If these whet your appetite for more, we can highly recommend Elizabethan Lyrics edited by Norman Ault, a bumper collection…
  2. interestingliterature.com

    Sir Philip Sidney, 'Loving in Truth'. One of the best poems about writing poetry, this sonnet, written in alexandrines or twelve-syllable lines, opens Sidney's great sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, a sequence of 108 sonnets - and a few songs - inspired by Sidney's unrequited love for Penelope Rich, who was offered to him as a potential wife a few years before.
  3. interestingliterature.com

    Following Victorian poet George Meredith's innovation of the 16-line sonnet, Tony Harrison wrote a sonnet sequence in which many of the poems utilise this extended form. 'Illuminations I' is one of the most accomplished and moving examples, though Harrison wrote many poignant and well-crafted sonnets, especially about his parents.
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    1550s poems (1 C) 1560s poems (1 C) 1570s poems (1 C) 1580s poems (1 C) 1590s poems (6 C, 4 P) B. Poetry of the Bannatyne Manuscript (15 P) Pages in category "16th-century poems" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
  5. The love poems of the English Renaissance (late 15th-early 17th century) are considered to be some of the most romantic of all time. Many of the most famous poets are more well-known as the Elizabethan era playwrights—Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Ben Jonson (1572-1637), and the most renowned of all, William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
  6. poetryfoundation.org

    The shapes and sizes of a Renaissance poem ran the gamut from Ben Jonson's prickly, no-word-wasted epigrams ("On Gut": "Gut eats all day and lechers all the night; / So all his meat he tasteth over twice") to Edmund Spenser's gargantuan epic The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596); by his death, Spenser had completed six of a proposed 24 ...
  7. Poems typically told stories. Poems like Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucretia" or Marlowe's "Hero and Leander," are what come to mind first when people of this era think of serious poetry. Even plays at the time were most often written wholly or in part in verse. Plays were really long poems acted in front of an audience.
  8. famouspoetsandpoems.com

    A list of Famous 16th Century English Poets. The authors listed on this page include some of the greatest poets of 16th Century. See also: Poets by Nationality | Contemporary English Poets | English Women Poets | All English Poets English Poets Born: Before 1400 | 1501-1600 | 1601-1700 | 1701-1800 | 1801-1900 | 1901-1950 | After 1951
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