The second phase of English Renaissance was not like the first. Surrey, on the other hand, perfected the rhyme scheme of Wyatt and introduced blank verse into English literature, which is a variation that he did not invent but helped immensely to popularize. Though Wyatt adopted Petrarch as his model for writing poetry, he experimented with the Petrarchan rhyme scheme. Earl of Surrey, along with Wyatt, is credited with introducing the sonnet form into English. The whole movement had found its great master in Petrarch, who throughout his 14 career wrote mostly sonnets of perfect beauty in praise of his nearly imaginary beloved Laura. It is worthy to note that Italian poetry of the sixteenth century had itself been an adaptation and imitation of the poetry of Provence of Southern France. Influenced by the beauty of Italian verse, Wyatt introduced the Italian fashion of lyric poetry determined to remodel the style. During the Renaissance, different forms of poetry emerged such as the lyric, elegy, tragedy and pastoral, when the Italian Renaissance began to wane, its greatest poetic export-the ballad and the sonnet found their way into English through Sir Thomas Wyatt. The freedom provided by the Renaissance philosophy led the poets as well as the dramatists to experiment with form. Renaissance Humanism provoked the renewal of English poetry after a period of sterility. The literary development enforced the intellectual movement. It foreshadowed the approaching Renaissance with its note of freedom from and protest against medieval style. The growth of the language of literature provided the native tongues of Europe a new voice. The Renaissance in Europe was in one sense an awakening from the long slumber of Dark Ages with its re-entrance into the world of secular inquiry, self reliant spirit that characterized the life and culture of classical antiquity. The Renaissance and the Elizabethan Period:
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