Supplement
Three chief forms of poetry flourished during the Elizabethan Age. They were the lyric, the sonnet, and
narrative poetry.
The lyric
is a short poem that expresses a poet’s personal emotions and thoughts in a songlike
style.
The sonnet
is a 14-line poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm. Elizabethan poets wrote two
types of sonnets, the Italian sonnet and the English sonnet. The two types differed in the arrangement of the
rhymes. Sir Thomas Wyatt introduced the sonnet from Italy into English literature in the early 1500’s. William
Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser wrote sonnet sequences.
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