<P> In the 18th century interest in Elizabethan poetry was rekindled through the scholarship of Thomas Warton and others . </P> <P> The Lake Poets and other Romantics, at the beginning of the 19th century, were well - read in Renaissance poetry . However, the canon of Renaissance poetry was formed only in the Victorian period, with anthologies like Palgrave's Golden Treasury . A fairly representative idea of the "Victorian canon" is also given by Sir Arthur Quiller - Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse (1919). The poems from this period are largely songs and apart from the major names, one sees the two pioneers Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey, and a scattering of poems by other writers of the period . However, the authors of many poems are anonymous . Some poems, such as Thomas Sackville's Induction to the Mirror for Magistrates, were highly regarded (and therefore "in the canon") but they were omitted from the anthology as non-lyric . </P> <P> In the 20th century T.S. Eliot's many essays on Elizabethan subjects were mainly concerned with Elizabethan theatre, but he also attempted to bring back long - forgotten poets to general attention, like Sir John Davies, whose cause he championed in an article in The Times Literary Supplement in 1926 (republished in On Poetry and Poets, 1957). </P> <P> The American critic Yvor Winters suggested in 1939, an alternative canon of Elizabethan poetry . In this canon he excludes the famous representatives of the Petrarchan school of poetry, represented by Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, and instead turns his eye to a Native or Plain Style anti-Petrarchan movement, which he claims has been overlooked and undervalued . The most underrated member of this movement he deems to have been George Gascoigne (1525--1577), who "deserves to be ranked...among the six or seven greatest lyric poets of the century, and perhaps higher". Other members were Sir Walter Raleigh (1552--1618), Thomas Nashe (1567--1601), Barnabe Googe (1540--1594), and George Turberville (1540--1610). </P>

Elizabethan drama was written in which of the following forms