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Born into a working class family, depended on the payments he received from work, his greatest work was The Faerie Queene, created a new type of nine-line stanza, had his own sonnet form called Spensersian
Edmund Spenser
Courtier, scholar, poet, soldier; modest; died due to a severe wound in military engagement
Sir Philip Sidney
Divided into an eight line octave, rhyme scheme was abba abba
Petrarchan sonnet
Rhymes abab bcbc cdcd ee
Spenserian sonnet
Sonnet one, sonnet 35, and sonnet 75, were all written by…
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 31 and sonnet 39 were written by…
Sir Philip Sidney
Brilliant, playwright, and poet; scoundrel, ladies, man, hothead; rumors of being a spy; his first drama was Tamburlaine; main theme of works was the larger than life hero who “overreaches”
Christopher Marlowe
Courtier, navigator, poet, historian; set up a colony on Roanoke island, Virginia; was secretly married to one of the queen’s maids of honor; wrote in elegant verse; while in prison he wrote The History of the World
Sir Walter Raleigh
What kind of work celebrates the pleasures of simple life in the country, and is often written by sophisticated artists
A pastoral work
What were some common themes and literature?
Love and the delights of youth and nature; the relationship of love to time
