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| x Paradise Lost |
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Restoration literature | 1667 |
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's...
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| x Fables, Ancient and Modern | Restoration literature | 1700 |
Fables, Ancient and Modern was a collection of translations of classical and medieval poetry by John Dryden interspersed with some of Dryden’s own works. Published in March, 1700, it was his last and also one of his greatest works. Dryden died two...
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| x The Faerie Queene |
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English Renaissance | 1590 |
The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The first half was published in 1590, and a second installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian...
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| x The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | English Renaissance | 1600 |
"The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd" was written by Sir Walter Raleigh in response to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". It could be considered a criticism, or at least a negative reaction to the original poem, as the nymph...
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| x The Lie | English Renaissance | 1592 |
The Lie is a political and social criticism poem probably written by Sir Walter Ralegh. Speaking in the imperative mood throughout, he commands his soul to go "upon a thankless errand" and tell various people and organizations of their misdeeds and...
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| x Astrophel and Stella |
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English Renaissance | 1591 |
Likely composed in the 1580s by Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. The name derives from the two Greek words, 'aster' (star) and 'phil' (lover), and the Latin word 'stella' meaning...
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| x The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | English Renaissance | 1599 |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the most well-known love poems in the English language, it is...
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| x Hero and Leander | English Renaissance | 1598 |
Hero and Leander is a mythological poem by Christopher Marlowe. After Marlowe's death it was completed by George Chapman. Henry Petowe published an alternate completion to the poem.
Two editions of the poem were issued in quarto in 1598; one,...
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| x Shakespeare's sonnets |
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English Renaissance | 1609 |
Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as time, love, beauty and mutability. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154...
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| x The Rape of Lucrece |
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English Renaissance | 1594 |
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in...
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| x Venus and Adonis |
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English Renaissance | 1593 |
Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592-93, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is a complex, kaleidoscopic work, using constantly shifting tone and perspective to present contrasting views of the...
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| x A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | English Renaissance | 1633 |
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem written by John Donne. According to Donne's biographer Izaak Walton, Donne composed it for his wife in 1611, when Donne was about to embark on a trip to France and Germany. It was first...
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