Renaissance poetry

A very popular writing style for the Renaissance poets was the:

• epic

• ode

• sonnet

• monologue

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The poet who served as Queen Eizabeth's confidential secretary and wrote a witty reply to another's pastoral poem was:

• John Donne

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Sir Thomas Wyatt

• Wm. Shakespeare

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The poet who is sometimes called "the most major of the minor English poets" is"

• Wm. Shakespeare

• Andrew Marvell

• Christopher Marlowe

• Edmund Spencer

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This poet wrote 154 sonnets, chiefly to "the beloved young man" and "the dark lady."

• Wm. Shakespeare

• Robert Herrick

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Ben Johnson

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This poet was a metaphysical poet who began life as a Catholic, but became a Doctor of the Anglican Church.

• Robert Herrick

• Edmund Spencer

• Richard Lovelace

• John Donne

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This poet was one of a "tribe" of a major poet; he wrote lighter verse, became a priest, and espoused the "carpe diem" ideal in poetry.

• John Donne

• Ben Johnson

• Richard Loveless

• Robert Herrick

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A Cavalier, this poet wrote lighter verse and is said to be the inventor of the game of cribbage.

• Thomas Wyatt

• Richard Lovelace

• John Suckling

• Ben Johnson

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A courtier of Henry VIII, he was expected to write songs and verses, the subject of which was a future queen in whom he had taken an interest.

• Wm Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe

• Thomas Wyatt

• Edmund Spencer

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Belonging to the first generation of Elizabethan dramatists, this poet showed Shakespeare what was possible in dramatic poetry

• Ben Johnson

• Christopher Marlowe

• Andrew Marvell

• Thomas Wyatt

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This poet served his government by living in Ireland, and this poet's greatest work is a long unfinished allegory

• Thomas Wyatt

• John Suckling

• John Donne

• Edmund Spencer

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