ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The predominant form of poetry during the Elizabethan era were sonnets. Sonnets are fourteen lines long and usually contain a rhyming scheme. The three major forms of sonnets popular during this era were English Sonnets, Spenserian Sonnets, and Petrarchan Sonnets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabethan poetry is notable for many features, including the sonnet Page 2 form, blank verse, the use of classical material, and double entendres. The proper Elizabethan literary age began in 1579, but before that year, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey made their poetic contributions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The period coinciding with the reign of England’s Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), considered to be the literary height of the English Renaissance. Poets and dramatists drew inspiration from Italian forms and genres such as the love sonnet, the pastoral, and the allegorical epic.

Detailed explanation-4: -The format of Elizabethan poetry was traditional verse using regular meter and rhyme patterns. You may have learned about blank verse from reading one of Shakespeare’s plays. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter, iambic being the metrical pattern closest to human speech.