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  1. 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.
  2. poemanalysis.com

    The 16th century is also known as the English Renaissance period. The writers of this century took English poetry and drama to new heights. Beginning from Thomas Wyatt and Edmund Spenser to William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe belonged to this period. They experimented with classical forms and explored new fields.
  3. 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 ...
  4. everywritersresource.com

    March 21, 2010 by Every Writer Filed Under: 1600s, Love Poems Leave a Comment. John Dryden (1631-1700) Hidden Flame by John Dryden Feed a flame within, which so torments me That it both pains my heart, and yet contains me: 'Tis such a pleasing smart, and I so love it, That I had rather die than once remove it. Yet he, for whom I grieve, shall ...
  5. interestingliterature.com

    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 ...
  6. 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…
  7. 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).
  8. literariness.org

    Tottel's Miscellany represented nothing less than England's many-faceted response to the Continental Renaissance. In this collection, every conceivable metrical style (including some strange and not wholly successful experiments with structural alliteration) was attempted in an array of genres, including sonnets, epigrams, elegies, eulogies, and poems of praise and Christian consolation ...
  9. bestlovepoetry.com

    Filed Under: 1600's, Andrew Marvell, Couplet Poems, Dating, Hard-to-Get (Coy Poems), Humorous Love Poems, Longing, Love Poems, Love Poetry, Unrequited Love, Valentine's Day Poetry Tagged With: Andrew Marvell, fun love poems, love poems, love poetry, To HIs Coy Mistress. Shakespeare: Sonnet 116. January 16, 2013 By PoetryGirl
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