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The Best Seventeenth-Century Poems Everyone Should Read
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 ...
The Best Poems of the Elizabethan Era - Interesting Literature
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…