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    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…
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    One of the oldest sonnets in the English language, written in the 1530s and published in the 1550s, 'Whoso List to Hunt' is also one of the very best. Its use of rhyme is masterly, and the background to the poem - Wyatt's former friendship (romance?) with Anne Boleyn, now married to King Henry VIII - is as fascinating as the language ...
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    What follows is the poem, followed by a brief introduction to, and analysis of, the poem's language and imagery - as well as its surprising connections to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Wyatt (1503-1542) probably wrote 'Whoso List to Hunt' some time during the 1530s, and the poem was published in the 1550s after his death.
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    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.
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    One of Spenser's pastoral poems, this one was published in 1595, the same year as Amoretti.The critic Alastair Fowler has called it the 'greatest pastoral eclogue in the English language'. Dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh and loosely based on Spenser's visit to London in 1591, the poem is, like The Faerie Queene, an allegorical work, with Spenser (who appears in autobiographical form as ...
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    The poem reflects the blackest moods of depression, with the speaker wishing to join with the night, since they both embody darkness and are natural partners for each other. Scroll down to number 37 on the list linked to above to read this poem. So there we have it: our pick of the ten best short Renaissance poems and lyrics.
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    The 1950s was the age of austerity and the end of wartime rationing in the UK, while American poetry found a new voice in the disillusioned and politically active Beat poets. Below, we introduce ten of the greatest 1950s poems, ranging from the very short (see the e. e. cummings poem, for instance) to the very long, almost epic poem by David Jones.
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    A small subgenre of poems in the late seventeenth century was the 'imperfect enjoyment' poem, named after a poem by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. This was Behn's response to Rochester's poem, which uses the same basic setup - a man seducing a woman into bed with him, only to discover that he cannot 'perform' - but throws the ...
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    I haue a gentil cook, Crowyt me day. He doth me rysyn erly, My matyins for to say… Anonymous, 'When the Nightingale Sings'. This medieval poem dating from the early fourteenth century begins, in Middle English, 'When the nyhtegale singes, / The wodes waxen grene, / Lef ant gras ant blosme springes / In Averyl, Y wene': in modern English, 'When the nightingale sings, the woods grow ...
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    Memorably used by The Beatles as the lyrics for their song of the same name on the Abbey Road LP, 'Golden Slumbers' is a beautiful lullaby from Thomas Dekker's 1603 play Patient Grissel, written with Henry Chettle and William Haughton.. This is one of the most soothing and beautiful poems of the Renaissance - and perhaps the best-known Renaissance lullaby, or 'cradle song', out there.
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