Elizabethan poetry
Shakespeare's era writing
Poetry written during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (1558–1603), a period of extraordinary literary flourishing.
The era produced the sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and Sidney, Spenser's epic verse, and the dramatic blank verse of Marlowe.
Elizabethan poetry is marked by elaborate wordplay, classical allusions, and explorations of love, beauty, and mortality: The course covered Elizabethan poetry and drama.
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- rhyme schemeSound-matching arrangement in poetry
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- Tudor England1485-1603 English period
William Shakespeare · John Donne · Christopher Marlowe · Globe Theatre · Mythology · Protestant Reformation · Elegy · Humanism · Symbolism · Allegory · Nature · Sir Walter Raleigh · Elizabethan theater · Time · Beauty · carpe diem · blazon · courtly love
Elizabethan poetryRomantic poetry
Feeling-centered literary movement
Victorian poetry · contemporary poetry · confessional poetry
Elizabethan poetryfree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
slam poetry · spoken word · prose poetry · confessional poetry · automatic writing
Elizabethan poetryprotest poetry
Literature opposing authority
underground poetry · slam poetry · spoken word · street poetry · folk poetry
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