Courtly love sonnet

 Edmund Spenser made the Spenserian stanza familiar. The Spenserian stanza is lyrical, measured and greatly controlled. Spenser became a model of versification for the English Romantic poets. In the 19th century, poets including Keats and Byron, made use of the Spenserian verse. Spenser is also known as the poet of allegory which he used in The Faerie Queene and The Shepherdes Calendar.

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The Elizabethan love poets liked the courtly love sonnet or lyric. Wyatt introduced the love sonnet to the English court audience. In the conventional courtly love sonnet, which was taken from Italian poetry, the subject was the pining lover and the beautiful but pitiless beloved. The sonnet provided the image of a man pleading with a girl to respond to his love. The sonnets displayed the lover’s love-sick self, dwelled on the charms of the girl and pleaded her to take pity on him. The English poets had the expression of love and combined it with other literary traditions and attitudes. They picked up the Chaucerian style and weaved it with the Italian. Wyatt’s sonnet “They Flee from Me” is an example.

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