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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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    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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    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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    The speaker of this poem by one of the greatest Romantic Poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), tells us of the traveller he met in an 'antique land' who told him about two stony stumps which stand in the desert. Near them are the remains of a stone face - evidently part of a statue - and the face bears a superior, grim expression. ...
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    Probably the greatest epic poem in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667) was not Milton's first attempt at an epic: as a teenager, Milton began writing an epic poem in Latin about the Gunpowder Plot; but in quintum novembris remained unfinished.Instead, his defining work would be this 12-book poem in blank verse about the Fall of Man, taking in Satan's fall from Heaven, his founding ...
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    In 1650, a collection of her poems, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America, was published in England, bringing her fame and recognition. This volume was the first book of poems by an author living in America to be published. She continued to write poetry in the ensuing decades. Below we've chosen five of the finest Anne Bradstreet poems.
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    Samuel Johnson (1709-84) embodies much of the eighteenth century with its determination to define, categorise, and classify: he is best-remembered for his monumental 1755 Dictionary of the English Language.But he was also a poet: much of Johnson's poetry is written in the heroic couplets (iambic pentameter rhyming couplets) used in Pope's poem above.
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    The poem is a memento mori - a reminder that we will die - but one with an altogether more stoic and positive outlook on death than many such poems. It sees Herbert lying in a tomb in order to accustom his body and soul to the fact that he will one day lie at rest in such a grave - forever. The poem is especially notable for its gendered ...
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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 lullaby from Thomas Dekker's 1603 play Patient Grissel, written with Henry Chettle and William Haughton.This is one of the most soothing short Renaissance poems - and perhaps the best-known Renaissance lullaby, or 'cradle song', out there.
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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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