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School Of Spencer Or School Of Spencerean Poetry


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Literature of the Puritan period or Puritan poetry. 

The puritan poetry divided into three parts first poetry of School of Spancer, second poetry of the Metaphysical school, and third poetry of the Cavalier poet. 

School of Spencer Or school of Spencerean poetry. 

The spenserians were the follower of Spencer. Spencer and Sidney had made fashionable during the sixteenth century, and the preferred to follow Spencer and considered him as their master.

Phines Fletcher(1582-1648) and Giles Fletcher (1583-1623) are the most important poets of the spenserian poets and of this school. They were both priests and fellows of Cambridge university. Phineas Fletcher wrote a number of Spencerian pastorals and allegories. His most important work is the poem " The purple Island". It is an allegorical poem and follows the allegorical pattern of the Faerie Queen.

Giles Fletcher was more lyrical and super natural than his brother. He also choosed his subjects for his poetry from Spencer subjects. His best known work, Christ's Victory and Triumph in Heaven and Earth over and after Death in 1610, which is an allegorical poem is a link between the religious poetry of spancer and Milton. Other writers who wrote under the influence of Spencer were William Browne, George Wither and William Drummond.

William Browne’s important poetical work is Britannia’s Pastorals which shows all the characteristics of Elizabethan pastoral poetry. It is obviously inspired by Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Sidney’s Arcadia as it combines allegory with satire. It is a story of wooing and adventure, of the nymphs who change into streams and flowers. It also sings the praise of virtue and of poets and dead and living.

Drummond who was a Scottish poet, wrote a number of pastorals, sonnets, songs, elegies and religious poems. His poetry is the product of a scholar of refined nature, high imaginative faculty, and musical ear. His indebtedness to Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare in the matter of fine phraseology is quite obvious. The greatest and original quality of all his poetry is the sweetness and musical evolution in which he has few rivals even among the Elizabethan lyricists. His well known poems are Tears on the Death of Maliades (an elegy), Sonnets, Flowers of Sion and Pastorals.







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