The Elizabethan Age
In our study of this great age we have noted the non-dramatic poets, that is, poets who did not write for the stage .The center of this group is Edmund Spenser, whose ‘Shepherds Calendar’ (1579) marked the appearance of the first national poet since chances death in 1400 . Associated with Spenser are the minor poets – Thomas Sack ville, Michael Dayton, George Chapman and Philip Sidney. Chapman is noted for his completion of homers ‘Iliad and odyssey’. Sidney, besides his poetry, wrote his prose romance ‘Arcadia’ and ‘The Defense of poetic, one of our earliest critical essays. Charles lamb called Spenser the poets poet. He is also called the second father of English poetry, because it was he, and not Chaucer, who gave to the other English poets a high and noble conception of the work of a poet. He believed that the poet was a creator like God and so shared some of this immortality. The poet should work with faith and devotion because he was sure to be rewarded with immortal fame. Powerful empires, great and noble civilizations, and deeds of men, may be destroyed and forgotten, but art and poetry remain in all their strength and brightness. This faith in the permanence of poetry and immortality of poets, he proclaimed in the most forceful language in his poetry. Censer in the poet’s poet not only for the reason mentioned above, but for many other reasons as well. He was a learned man well-versed in the literature and Ichthyology of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as in the literature of his our age. (continue)
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In our study of this great age we have noted the non-dramatic poets, that is, poets who did not write for the stage .The center of this group is Edmund Spenser, whose ‘Shepherds Calendar’ (1579) marked the appearance of the first national poet since chances death in 1400 . Associated with Spenser are the minor poets – Thomas Sack ville, Michael Dayton, George Chapman and Philip Sidney. Chapman is noted for his completion of homers ‘Iliad and odyssey’. Sidney, besides his poetry, wrote his prose romance ‘Arcadia’ and ‘The Defense of poetic, one of our earliest critical essays. Charles lamb called Spenser the poets poet. He is also called the second father of English poetry, because it was he, and not Chaucer, who gave to the other English poets a high and noble conception of the work of a poet. He believed that the poet was a creator like God and so shared some of this immortality. The poet should work with faith and devotion because he was sure to be rewarded with immortal fame. Powerful empires, great and noble civilizations, and deeds of men, may be destroyed and forgotten, but art and poetry remain in all their strength and brightness. This faith in the permanence of poetry and immortality of poets, he proclaimed in the most forceful language in his poetry. Censer in the poet’s poet not only for the reason mentioned above, but for many other reasons as well. He was a learned man well-versed in the literature and Ichthyology of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as in the literature of his our age. (continue)