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Saturday, November 19, 2011

love poems for lovers

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This genre had a long history and later became a favorite of the troubadour poets and the authors of sonnets in the Elizabethan era. This renaissance literature was popularized by French authors via Italian and was called the blasons anatomiques or blazon (see Italian poet Petrarch). Shakespeare effectively ended this movement with his Sonnet 130 which satirized the form. For instance, the first line in that satire reads, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." (To read the whole sonnet - which is 14 lines long, as all sonnets are - along with a modern English translation and a critical analysis, see Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130).