English+Renaissance+-+Poets

= = Poets of the English Renaissance =Christopher Marlowe= (1564-1593) ~Famous Playwright ~Major Works: = = =Sir Walter Raleigh= (1552-1618) == ~ Main poetic contributor of the Elizabethan Era ~Plain straightforward writing style ~Uninfluenced by Italian Renaissance ~Major Works:
 * "Hero"
 * "Leander"
 * "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
 * "What is our Life"
 * "The Lie"

=Sir Thomas Wyatt= (1503-1542)

== ~Introduced the sonnet to english poetry ~Major Works: = = =Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey= (1517-1547)
 * " My Lute, Awake!"
 * " Whoso List to Hunt"



-Followed in Wyatt's footsteps, continuing the form of the sonnet -Both were often called the "father of the English Sonnet"

=William Shakespeare= (1564-1616)

~Poet and Playwright ~ Regarded as the greatest writer in the english language ~ Wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 narrative poems as well as other poems ~Famous Works:
 * "Shakespeare's Sonnets"
 * " A Lover's Complaint"

=Edmund Spenser= (1552-1599) == ~ Used the Spenserian Stanza, which is a mix of the Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet ~ Greatly Admired Geoffrey Chaucer ~ Famous Works :
 * "The Faerie Queen"
 * "Epithalamion"


 * Preceding Content by Kelly Sweigart and Shane Martin *