Which poetic form was used by Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid ?
Surrey used blank verse in his translation of the Aeneid. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter; an epic identifies a literary genre rather than this metrical form.
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Which poetic form was used by Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid ?
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Surrey used blank verse in his translation of the Aeneid. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter; an epic identifies a literary genre rather than this metrical form.
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