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Tag Archives: Sir Thomas Wyatt
in verse # 21 : unblank verse
The imp of the perverse — a constant companion — suggested as a title for this installment “blankety-blank verse,” but as its topic is the Elizabethan sonnet, the title above presented itself as an amiable contrast to my last installment. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Burgess, Edmund Spenser, Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Petrarchan sonnet, Renaissance England : poetry and prose from the Reformation to the Restoration, Shakespearean sonnet, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas Wyatt, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Stephen Greenblatt, The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, Will in the World, William Shakespeare
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in verse # 20 : blank verse
Blank verse — the unrhymed iambic pentameter so brilliantly deployed by Shakespeare in his later plays — is an invention of the English renaissance, and specifically of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47), who used it to revise and strengthen … Continue reading
