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development of poetry or early modern poetry
poetry written during the reign of queen elizabeth of england
poetry was the chief form of literature along with drama during that age
types of poetry
sonnet form - championed by shakespeare - was one of the dominant form of poetry during that age
lyric poetry - a form of personal poetry used to express feelings and emotions, mostly spoken in the first form - in lyric mode
narrative poetry - a form of poetry that narrates a story - entire story in a metered verse
poetry and verse were majorly written in blank verse and use of metaphors - very common
themes of romantic luxuriance,creativity, imagination and experimentation - common in poetry
edmund spenser
(1552-1599)
the greatest non dramatic poet of the age - born in london - died at an inn in westminister
his publication of
shepheardes calender
in 1592 - marked as an opening of the golden age of elizabethan literature
he is the poet of chivalry and medieval allegory
a poet of imagination and free from the harshness of the society
he contributed to literature the spenserian stanza - a nine line stanza, riming ababbcbc, the last line being what is called alexandrine or line of six iambic feet instead of five
main works
his fame rests mainly on the
the Fairee queene
(1590 and republished in 1596)
a fragment of twelve books - only six were published during his lifetime and the portions of the seventh after his death
has traditional elements of chivalry - giants, dwarfs wizards, knights of superhuman prowess and courage
an allegory - as a praise or as an criticism of queen elizabeth
shepherades calender
1579 - pastoral poem
follows the models set by the late greek poet theocritics, by vergil in his bucolia and by french and italian renaissance
such pastoral imagery was used
astrophel
- an elegy on the death of sidney
foure hymnes
(1596))
in honour of love and beauty - shows his wonderful power of melodious verse
amoretti
(1595)
a series of 88 sonnets - sonnets in a petrarch manner - dedicated to elizabeth boyle
epithalamium (1595) - an ode to his bride elizabeth boyle - finest of all his minor poems
charles lomb - "spenser was a poet's poet"
const hope - "the place of spenser in history of poetry is v perculiar one. spenser was the poet of chivalry"