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Elizabethan Literature
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Elizabethan Poetry and Proseshift from narrative to lyric poetry
popular lyric form - sonnetsonnets by Sir Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, form perfected by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s sonnet form became known as English sonnet replacing Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet.
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other popular type of poetry - pastoral poems - celebrates a simple life in the country
PROSEmonumental prose achievement of era - King James Bible
fifty-four scholars worked seven years to translate into English
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Lyric Poetry Lyric poetry - expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker
Sonnet (type of lyric poem)14 linessingle themeiambic pentameterspecific rhyme scheme/stanza form
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Sonnet Sequence series of sonnets written to one person or on one theme
each sonnet can stand on its own or viewed as a series to trace trace a relationship
Iambic Pentameter five sets of “feet” consisting of a weak beat followed by a strong beat
Rhyme Scheme the pattern in which the end words rhyme