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=== Period Examples ===
=== Period Examples ===
[[Beowulf]]
[[Beowulf]]


Poetry for non-geniuses to model off.

I found that the most accessible 16th C poetry was William Shakespeare, and he's a genius and therefore a bad model for the rest of us.

Therefore, we need to model our work after people who are less good.
Plug their name plus poetry into Google, and examples of their work will come up.

Walter Raleigh (especially his Reply to Kit Marlowe'w A Passionate Shepherd to his Love)
George Gascoigne (NB Certayne Notes of Instruction is your basic 16th C Poetry for Dummies book. Download it at http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/cnoi.html)

Anton de Stoc
Politokopolis

Revision as of 21:26, 27 October 2003

Pretty much every culture wrote poetry in one form or another during period. Different styles include

Period Examples

Beowulf


Poetry for non-geniuses to model off.

I found that the most accessible 16th C poetry was William Shakespeare, and he's a genius and therefore a bad model for the rest of us.

Therefore, we need to model our work after people who are less good.

Plug their name plus poetry into Google, and examples of their work will come up.

Walter Raleigh (especially his Reply to Kit Marlowe'w A Passionate Shepherd to his Love) George Gascoigne (NB Certayne Notes of Instruction is your basic 16th C Poetry for Dummies book. Download it at http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/cnoi.html)

Anton de Stoc Politokopolis