EN3CM03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edmund Spenser, Geoffrey Chaucer, Prothalamion
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Music and lyrical poetry flourished many of the poems that were written were meant to be sang as well as read. He was a courtier, diplomat and poet like geoffrey chaucer- his gifted contemporary. Henry howard, the earl of surrey- wyatt and surrey whose poems were published in the tottel"s miscellany in 1557 they introduced two important verse forms in. English poetry the sonnet and the iambic pentameter. English poetry and prose burst into glory -in the days of queen elizabeth in the hands of ordinary men like shakespeare and spenser- not courtiers or diplomats. He belonged to the earlier tradition of poet, courtier, diplomat- typical renaissance universal man- a man of many parts. Three books of sidney defense of poesie- the first work that deals with the state of. The shepherd"s calendar- poem- in 1579- dedicated to sir philip sidney. Spenser"s fame-his masterpiece- the faerie queene- a heroic romance dedicated to queen.