Write an essay on the innovation brought about by wyatt and surrey in poetry
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Wyatt and Surrey are normally considered the Stepping Stone of the golden age of English poetry during ruling of Elizabeth I.
Both men were learned in the humanistic tradition and earlier they became familiar with the finesse lyric poetry of the Italians and French.
They tried to show in own works that English was a language flexible and good enough for court poetry.
Skillful experimenters with metrics as they imitated a number of the verse forms famous on the Continent including the Sonnet, ottava rima, terza rima and Rondeau.
Maximum lyrics of either poets depends upon the Petrarchan Conventions of cruel, scornful lady and her forlorn dejected lover and number of the sonnets are either translations/intimate adaptations of Petrarch’s works.
While Wyatt and Surrey are most often said as precursors of Elizabethan poetry and students of their works have pointed out that their poetry is different from that of Sidney, Spenser and there successors.