Era · 1500 – 1660

Renaissance Poetry

Shakespeare, Spenser and Marlowe. The age of the English sonnet, the love lyric and poems about time and beauty.

John MiltonMilton William ShakespeareShakespeare Robert HerrickHerrick
8 poems
Il Penseroso (Selected Excerpts) John Milton Lycidas (Selected Excerpts) John Milton L’Allegro (Selected Excerpts) John Milton Pastoral On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX) John Milton Sonnet Paradise Lost (Selected Excerpts) John Milton Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William Shakespeare Sonnet To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeGather ye rosebuds while ye may, Robert Herrick Lyric