The Elizabethans and their literature and poetry are highly underrated, even today. Who were the greatest Elizabethan poets? Besides the obvious (Shakespeare and Marlowe), who are the most enjoyable to read?
>>25601642Blunt cunt
>>25601645Haha I should've replaced one of them with Chaucer in with the word 'cunt'
>>25601642I don't get it ...
>Who were the greatest Elizabethan poetsSpenserDrayton
>>25601712Each answer showcases the poet's character. Shakespeare gives a highly skilled and suitable answer of something that rhymes with blunt. Thomas Wyatt offers the same word again as a rhyme, showing his rudimentary nature and 'up in the clouds' lethargy. Thomas Kyd offers 'knave', showing he's so overcome with passion it seems he just ignores the prompt entirely and gives a word that might appear in one of his works. Thomas Nashe is just the crazy guy in the corner off in his own world, who says 'inveterate' as an answer, a word with 0 rhyme to 'blunt', but he somehow believes it rhymes.
>>25601721I keep meaning to read The Fairie Queene. I've read The Shepheardes Calender, as well as "Colin Clout Comes Home Again."
>>25601860blunt confront does not sound good no suggestion sounds good
>>25601869I read the first section of the Faerie Queene before I gave up. It's Lord of the Rings hundreds of years before it ever existed. It's a 900 page allegory written entirely in verse. Basically, Faerie Queene came from an autist mind that with each and every line, each and every word, is going into deeper and deeper worlds of meaning in 900 pages of nonstop harmony not dissimilar to a Bach fugue, or an infinitesimal in calculus. You can only take so much before you can't follow along anymore.
