A summary of an early English sonnet As we’ve mentioned before, although he gets the credit for it, William Shakespeare didn’t invent the Shakespearean sonnet. That specific poetic form – also known as the English sonnet, and rhyming ababcdcdefefgg – was instead the innovation of a Tudor courtier and poet […]
Tag: Renaissance Verse
A Short Analysis of John Donne’s ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’
A summary of Donne’s classic poem by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ has been called the greatest verbal striptease in English verse. In this poem, John Donne (1572-1631) encourages his lover to undress for him, in one of the most deeply erotic love poems (‘lust poems’?) […]