<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter . It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century", and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse". </P> <P> The first documented use of blank verse in the English language was by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in his translation of the Æneid (composed c. 1540; published posthumously, 1554--1557). He may have been inspired by the Latin original as classical Latin verse did not use rhyme; or possibly he was inspired by the Ancient Greek verse or the Italian verse form of versi sciolti, both of which also did not use rhyme . </P> <P> The play Arden of Faversham (around 1590 by an unknown author) is a notable example of end - stopped blank verse . </P>

Identify the writer who first used blank verse in english poetry