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    ELIZABETHAN

    POETRY AND PROSE


    Chapter III

    Tiyas Aryani (F1022141005)


    Wilda Trianti (F1022141014)
    Galang Patria Bangsa (F1022141016)
    LOGO

    Elizabethan Age

    Queen Elizabeth ruled from 1558 to 1603 , yet The Great


    Elizabethan literary age began in 1579.
    During this time the writing of poetry was the part of
    education.

    Before Elizabethan
    Before 1579, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of
    Surrey already wrote sonnets which they learned
    from Italians.
    Sir Thomas Wyatt was the first man who
    brought the sonnet to England. He followed the
    tradition of the Petrarchan sonnet with octave
    and sestet.
    The Earl of Surrey was the first man who made
    blank verse in English.

    Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare was also a
    great poet of this age.
    He wrote around 154 sonnets and
    they are very famous in English
    literature.
    He developed a new form of sonnet called the English
    sonnet or the Shakespearean sonnet. The rhyme
    scheme was abab cdcd efef gg.

    Edmund Spencer

    Edmund Spencer introduced the


    Elizabethan age properly.
    In 1579, he wrote The Shepherds
    Calendar, a poem in twelve books, one
    for each month of the year.
    His greatest work was The Faerie Queene. It is written
    in Spenserian stanza of nine lines, with the rhyme
    scheme: ababbcbcc.

    Lyrics of the Elizabethan Age


    The Elizabethan age produced many beautiful
    lyrics.
    One of the finest lyricists was Sir Philip Sidney.
    His books of sonnets Astrophel and Stella was
    printed in 1591. Another great poet was Sir
    Walter Raleigh.
    Some examples of best Elizabethan lyrics can
    also be found in the plays of Shakespeare, like
    Venus and Adonis and Lucrece.

    Elizabethan Prose
    Many writers of the Elizabethan age translated various
    books into English.
    Sir Thomas North translated Plutarch Lives of the Noble
    Grecians and Romans(1579) had a wide influence on
    Elizabethan prose.
    Richard Hakluyt collected and published The Principal
    Navigations Voyages and Discoveries of the English
    Nation(1598)(about Cabots, Hawkins, etc.).
    Samuel Purchas published Purchas his Pilgrims(1625),
    Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and
    the Religions Observed in All Ages(1613), and Purchas
    his Pilgrim, or the History of Man(1619)

    Euphuism

    John Lily wrote a kind of novel named


    Euphues(1578 and 1580). He started a
    fashion, which spread in books and conversation
    called Euphuism.
    The term euphemism is used to refer to using a
    comparatively milder or less harsh form of a
    negative description in a writing or a
    conversation.

    Francis Bacon

    Bacon is one of the most famous


    prose writers of the time who is
    also known as the father of the
    English prose. He wrote books
    both in English and Latin.
    His famous books are The Essays, The
    Advancement of Learning, The History of
    Henry VII and The New Atlantis.

    The Metaphysical Poets

    A group of poets, known as the Metaphysical


    poets (Jacobean Age), began to write poems
    which were less beautiful and less musical, but
    full of intellectual images.
    They searched all fields of knowledge, science,
    as well as, nature, for comparisons and tried to
    say in a style never used before. This made their
    poetry difficult to understand.

    John Donne

    John Donne began writing


    metaphysical poets early in the
    17th Century. Donne also wrote
    religious poetry.
    His songs and sonnets are his finest works. He
    had made good use of direct speech to give a
    colloquial touch to his poems.

    Translation of The Bible

    William Tyndale was a successful translator who


    translated the New Testament from the Greek
    and the Old Testament from the Hebrew. He was
    later burnt to death for his beliefs.
    The Authorized Version (A.V) of the Bible
    appeared in 1611. The language is beautiful,
    strong and pure.

    Benjamin Jonson

    Ben Jonson (father of literary


    criticism) wrote a book titled
    Timber, or Discoveries (1640).
    This is a collection of notes and
    ideas on various subjects.
    Jonson was an English playwright,
    poet, actor, and literary critic. He is generally
    regarded as the second most important English
    dramatist, after William Shakespeare.

    Reference

    Thornley, G.C., and Gwyneth Roberts. An


    Outline of English Literature. 2nd ed.
    Harlow: Longman, 1984.

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