Pastoral Poems and Sonnets
1. There were crazy awesome writers during the Renaissance.
- Elizabeth I was a poet herself and rewarded poets for their eloquent rhymes.
- She also surrounded herself with lyricists.
- Among her Proteges were Sir Philip Sydney and Sir Walter Raleigh.
- The latter encouraged his homie Edmund Spencer to write the epic The Faerie Queen (1950) in honor of the queen, Elizabeth I.
- Christopher Marlowe wrote pastoral poems about shepherds and rustic life.
2. The Elizabethan poets were very spiritual about nature.
- They created ingenious metaphors, wicked sweet allegories, and analogies, all in the form of Sonnets.
- The Sonnet was the most popular form of love poems.
- Some Sonneters were Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Edward Spencer, William Shakespeare, and Amelia Lanier.
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