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    Home › Literature › English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century. English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 17, 2020 • ( 0). The poetry of the sixteenth century defies facile generalizations. Although the same can obviously be said for the poetry of other periods as well, this elusiveness of categorization is particularly characteristic of the sixteenth century.
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    English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 17, 2020 • ( 0) The poetry of the sixteenth century defies facile generalizations. Although the same can obviously be said for the poetry of other periods as well, this elusiveness of categorization is particularly characteristic of the sixteenth century. It is difficult to ...
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    Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) is often cited as an archetype of the well-rounded "Renaissance man": his talents were multifold, encompassing not only poetry and cultivated learning but also the virtues of statesmanship and military service. He was born into an aristocratic family, was eventually knighted, and held government appointments which included the governorship of Flushing in…
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    English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 17, 2020 • ( 0) The poetry of the sixteenth century defies facile generalizations. Although the same can obviously be said for the poetry of other periods as well, this elusiveness of categorization is particularly characteristic of the sixteenth century. It is difficult to ...
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    Home › Literature › Analysis of Ben Jonson's Poems. Analysis of Ben Jonson's Poems By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 20, 2020 • ( 0). Until the last few decades, attention to Ben Jonson's (1572-1637) poetry focused largely on the famous songs and the moving epitaphs on children.Such choices were not ill-advised, but they are unrepresentative.
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    Henry Vaughan's first collection, Poems, is very derivative; in it can be found borrowings from Donne, Jonson, William Hobington, William Cartwright, and others. It contains only thirteen poems in addition to the translation of Juvenal. Seven poems are written to Amoret, believed to idealize the poet's courtship of Catherine Wise, ranging from standard situations of…
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    An aristocrat with a humanistic education, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, considered literature a pleasant diversion. As a member of the Tudor court, he was encouraged to display his learning, wit, and eloquence by writing love poems and translating continental and classical works. The poet who cultivated an elegant style was admired and imitated by…
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    Section A (Poetry) Geoffrey Chaucer : "The General Prologue to Canterbury Tales" (first 100 lines) William Shakespeare : Sonnet 18. Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day John Donne : "The Canonization" John Milton : "Paradise Lost" Book 1 (lines up to 270) John Dryden : "Mac Flecknoe" Andrew Marvell : "To His Coy Mistress"
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    The sonnet sequence Amoretti (little love poems) and the Epithalamion (songs on the marriage bed) together provide a poetic account of courtship and marriage, an ac-count that tradition links to actualities in Spenser's relationship with Elizabeth Boyle,whom he married in 1594. References to seasons suggest that the "plot" of the sonnet ...
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    George Herbert wrote five "Affliction" poems, all contained in his collection The Temple. The first of the series, while not essentially autobiographical, did grow from Herbert's life and experiences. While the poem begins with positive aspects of the speaker's life, that same life quickly dissolves into the chaos caused by illness and the loss of…
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