The poems of this phase had generally a narrative thread that was reduced at times to a shadow-and they rambled gracefully, argumentatively, variously.
The upper texts often became a confusing mixture of sacred and secular—and even anticlerical—poems, indicating its intended performance in courtly as well as ecclesiastical settings.
Sonnets, Jintishi, Villanelle, Ruba’i, Sijo and Sestina Ode, Ghazal, Pantoum, Rondeau, Haiku, Ghazal and Tanka Lots of poetic forms Which one is your top choice?
Spenser's continuation and divergence from the Arthurian romance tradition are discussed in order to clarify the dialectical equiponderant relationship between romance and allegory of the poem.