<P> With the consolidation of Elizabeth's power, a genuine court sympathetic to poetry and the arts in general emerged . This encouraged the emergence of a poetry aimed at, and often set in, an idealised version of the courtly world . </P> <P> Among the best known examples of this are Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, which is effectively an extended hymn of praise to the queen, and Philip Sidney's Arcadia . This courtly trend can also be seen in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender . This poem marks the introduction into an English context of the classical pastoral, a mode of poetry that assumes an aristocratic audience with a certain kind of attitude to the land and peasants . The explorations of love found in the sonnets of William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walter Raleigh and others also implies a courtly audience . </P> <P> Virgil's Aeneid, Thomas Campion's metrical experiments, and Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and plays like Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra are all examples of the influence of classicism on Elizabethan poetry . It remained common for poets of the period to write on themes from classical mythology; Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and the Christopher Marlowe / George Chapman Hero and Leander are examples of this kind of work . </P> <P> Translations of classical poetry also became more widespread, with the versions of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Arthur Golding (1565--67) and George Sandys (1626), and Chapman's translations of Homer's Iliad (1611) and Odyssey (c. 1615), among the outstanding examples . </P>

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