Other Poets of Elizabethan Age (Shakespearean age) 1579 to 1625
The dominance of the Elizabethan age (Shakespearean age) was due to the great prose writers, poets, and dramatists. It is a fact that the mood of the nation has a keen impact on greatness. This age is also dominant in English literature, the great names: Shakespeare, Spencer, Bacon, and Marlowe produced outstanding works.
Different kind of literature produced by minor poets has great importance in this age. It is purposeless to catalogue all those poets but it is necessary we know the names and works of different kinds of poetry produced in this period and also sing Elizabeth's song.
The great production of poetry with fanciful titles in this period is given below in a chronicle manner: The Paradyse of Daynty Devises, A Handful of Pleasant Delites, An Arbor of Amorous Devises and England’s Helicon. England’s Helicon by John Flasket is obsessive to all these great works by poets. Numerous points have done their job in the form of verse. All these regular songbooks or lyrical poems have been preserved. And many other names have been forgotten.
The great production of poetry with fanciful titles in this period is given below in a chronicle manner: The Paradyse of Daynty Devises, A Handful of Pleasant Delites, An Arbor of Amorous Devises and England’s Helicon. England’s Helicon by John Flasket is obsessive to all these great works by poets. Numerous points have done their job in the form of verse. All these regular songbooks or lyrical poems have been preserved. And many other names have been forgotten.
Wyatt and Surrey introduced the Italian form of literature Sonnet in English later it became a part of it. Minor poets enjoyed the great vogue of Sonnet. The great names of this age like Spencer Drayton and Shakespeare had also adopted this Italian form of literature in the production of English literature. Amoretti by Spencer, Astrophil and Stella of Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel’s Delia, Idea of Drayton, and Shakespeare’s sonnets. All of these poems followed the love theme in the Italian manner. Poets expressed real and sentiment emotions, and some of them have feigned ideas.
During this period patriotism aroused in England, and poets started lyrical poems with patriotic feelings in national songs. Willian Warner wrote Albiou's England poem with patriotic feelings in 10,000 lines in the description of Noah's days to Elizabeth. Semerel Daniel pen down eight poetic books on the Civil wars between the House of York and the House of Lancaster from 1595 to 1609.
Michael Drayton was famous for the ballad The Battle of Agincourt, he introduced Epistles(poetry in letter form) form of poetry, his England’s Heroical Epistles and great Herculean toil work of 30 books of English poetical history description. The great historical works helped scholars in research whose keen interest was in the history of England. The scholars did research: Harrison, Stowe, and Holinshed.
Now, it was the Jacobean Period of the Elizabethan age(Shakespearean age) known as decline. With the decline of this Elizabethan age in politics and literature, the subject matter of this age was now exhausted and the great inspiration was waning. The new generation had adopted imitations in forms and content. People’s love for literature was now decreasing. In the Jacobean period, a new kind of poetry was introduced by John Donne in James’ period, when he was at the age of thirty Elizabeth died. John Donne produced new kinds of literature like preacher poetry, songs, sonnets, marriage poems, and satirical poems with a genuine voice and harsh meters. He used another language device conceit and he also wrote metaphysical poems.
Now, it was the Jacobean Period of the Elizabethan age(Shakespearean age) known as decline. With the decline of this Elizabethan age in politics and literature, the subject matter of this age was now exhausted and the great inspiration was waning. The new generation had adopted imitations in forms and content. People’s love for literature was now decreasing. In the Jacobean period, a new kind of poetry was introduced by John Donne in James’ period, when he was at the age of thirty Elizabeth died. John Donne produced new kinds of literature like preacher poetry, songs, sonnets, marriage poems, and satirical poems with a genuine voice and harsh meters. He used another language device conceit and he also wrote metaphysical poems.
