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Love in Andrew Marvell's 'The Definition of Love' and in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's 'Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought'

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saving damsels in distress and romantically wooing fair maidens. Love was definitely in bloom in life and art, thanks in large part to an Italian poet named Francis Petrarch.  He developed a unique style, the Petrarchan sonnet, to express his unrequited love for the elusive Laura. The sonnet, as conceived by Petrarch, was composed of a specific  rhythm pattern known as an iambic pentameter, or a combination of five unstressed and stressed syllables per line, had a predetermined rhyme scheme and was usually fourteen lines in length.  Unfortunately, Petrarchs love for Laura was never reciprocated, for rumor has it she was married to a man named Hugh de Sade and the mother of 11 children.  But it was this concept of a romantic ideal that was, more often than not, unattainable, and its tragic repercussions that inspired many who were pierced by cupids misguided arrows.  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was a colorful gent of royal breeding, with a great passion for life and love. His temper got him into a fair share of  fisticuffs and was ultimately responsible for his execution in 1547, at the age of thirty. Of his fifteen poems that still survive, the most poignant works were his love  sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was married to Frances de Vere at the age of seventeen, in a family-arranged marriage that  gave the appearance of being a happy union. However, the muse for Surreys love poetry was not the Countess of Surrey, but rather, the "Fair Geraldine" (Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald),  who was also married to another. With Sir Thomas Wyatt as his creative mentor, Surreys sonnets to his lady "suggested new possibilities" by being the first works composed in