FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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William Shakespeare
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Earl of Surrey
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Milton
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first known use of blank verse in English was by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in his translation of the Aeneid (composed c. 1540; published posthumously, 1554–1557).
Detailed explanation-2: -A major poet of the 16th century, Surrey is credited with developing the Shakespearean form of the sonnet. He wrote love poems and elegies and translated Books 2 and 4 of Virgil’s Aeneid as well as Psalms and Ecclesiastes from the Bible.
Detailed explanation-3: -Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter-almost always iambic pentameter-but that does not rhyme.
Detailed explanation-4: -Who invented ‘free verse’? Walt Whitman (1819-92) often gets the credit, although his decision to write in free verse – unrhymed poetry without a regular metre or rhythm – may have been influenced by the Biblical Psalms.