Презентация на тему The Elizabethan poets

shortly after) appeared in England during a period roughly

contemporaneous with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603).

Elizabeth I. The "Hampden" portrait, by Steven van der Meulen

educated at Cambridge, was in and out of favor

with Henry VIII, whom he served in a number of offices.  He was repeatedly in jail—for associating with Anne Boleyn, quarreling with the duke of Suffolk, and on charges of treason. He was knighted in 1537  and served two years as ambassador to Charles V. He translated some of Petrarch's sonnets, as well as writing many of his own and other lyrics and songs.

Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt, by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535–37

when his father became duke of Norfolk. He fought

in Scotland and in Flanders and became commander of a garrison of Boulogne. Quick-tempered and quarrelsome, he made many enemies and was imprisoned several times for misconduct. Arrested on false charges of treason, he was executed in 1547. As with other Elizabe­thans, his poetry was somewhat secondary to his other activities, but he was technically skilled and, like Wyatt, an enthusiast of the Italian sonnet.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey at age 29, 1546. Unknown author

was educated at Oxford, but left before taking a

degree. He is mentioned as one of the ornaments of Queen Elizabeth’s court, and was sent by her on missions to Holland and Denmark in the1580s. He was knighted in 1596. He was well esteemed as a poet by his contemporaries, but little of his poetry has survived.

Manuscript with a sample of Sir Edward Dyer's hand writing.

and poet. Born Kent, and educated at Oxford he

was sent by Elizabeth I on diplomatic missions and was considered one of her favorites. He fell out of favor at one point but was subsequently appointed governor of Vlissingen in the Netherlands, taking part in an expedition aiding the Netherlands against Spain. Sidney died of wounds received in a raid on a Spanish convoy. His best known poetic works are some 108 sonnets about unrequited love (Astrophel and Stella), and a pastoral romance (Arcadia). He defended of poetry against the Puritans in An Apologie for Poetrie.

Sir Philip Sidney, by unknown artist

educated at Cambridge. He became connected with a company

of actors for whom he wrote plays. He was also said to be a secret agent and to have led the adventurous life typical of English agents. Denounced as a heretic, he inadvertently avoided further action against him by being murdered in a tavern brawl. While he is most famous as the first great English playwright (Dr. Faustus, Tamerlane the Great, etc.), he also wrote poetry and translated some of the poems of Lucan and Ovid.

An anonymous portrait in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge believed to show Christopher Marlowe.

educated at Oxford and studied law in London. He

first sailed to America in 1578 and then in 1585 attempted to sponsor the first English colony there, which failed. He became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, who knighted him but became disenchanted with him when he secretly married one of her maids of honor.

Sir Walter Raleigh by an unknown artist

I, and was sentenced to death—commuted to a life

sentence in the Tower of London, where much of his writing was done in the 13 years that followed. This contained many poems, but most of them have been lost. He persuaded the king to release him in exchange for a fortune in gold that he would find in the Orinoco. He was unsuccessful and his son was killed when they attacked a Spanish settlement, violating an agreement with the king. James had Raleigh beheaded when he returned to England.

Walter Raleigh. The History of the World, in Five Books.

dramatist left little on record to describe his life.

The poetry he used in his plays to capture character, motivation, and drama is unique and represents one of the great achievements in human expression. He also took the sonnet form that had been brought from Italy by his Elizabethan predecessors and made it his own in a sequence of sonnets that has no equal.

The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed.

a successful physician. He was a lutenist and composed

lyrics, such as Cherry Ripe, which he and others set to music. His poems, also often set to music, are generally light and charming. The one selected here, however, has a somewhat earthier quality reminiscent of the Chinese Odes.

Poems by Thomas Campion, modern edition