A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero is known as an

In the Elizabethan age of heroes, one of the most widely admired figures of the flesh-and-blood variety was

The Stuart Period

In this poem the central figure is a pilgrim from life.

Baxter’s first book and the one for which he became best known.

This prayer for restoration of fellowship associates spiritual and poetic disorder.

The writer of the finest devotional poetry in English was a country parson but, like the later Donne, a man of fervent piety.

The most learned of the major English poets was born in London in 1608 when Shakespeare was still writing plays and the King James revisers had just begun their work.

On My First Son

What Is Our Life?

12. Diary

The Tudor Period

The Renaissance rebel, in showing reckless disregard for his divinely prescribed limits, flouts not only the laws of man but also the will of God.

This sonnet of renunciation, unlike Wyatt's, rejects earthly values for heavenly.

This sonnet is an original by Wyatt, not a translation of Petrarch. It is, in the form of an apostrophe to the god of love, Cupid.

like William Tyndale before him, fled England during intense Protestant persecution.

Here, traces of primitive superstition mingle with notions of the Christian afterlife as a grief-stricken mother is visited by, or dreams of, or crazily imagines the appearance of the spirits of her three sons.

Though the disruption of a poor household by wayfarers is potentially tragic, the humorous tone of this ballad constantly reassures us of the return of domestic peace.

It is allegorical (a "dark conceit"), and its materials are those of medieval romance.