The High Renaissance is closely associated with the era of Elizabeth.
The 2nd period (2nd half of the XVI – beginning of the XVII) was the time of flourishing the English Renaissance literature.
In this period, all masterpieces of Shakespeare were created.
This was the age of Shakespeare and the Golden Age of English Drama.
The poets adopted and innovated 8 forms of poetry and wrote on the varied themes.
Spenser, Shakespeare and Marlowe had the immense power to exalt and sublimate the lovers of poetry.
All varieties of poetic forms like lyric, elegy, eclogue, ode, sonnet etc. were successfully attempted.
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