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Blank Verse is verse without rhyme. It was first introduced into English from Italian by the Earl of Surrey in the 16th century. Blank verse was first employed in the English drama 'Gorboduc', written by Sackville in 1561. The most common form of English blank verse is the decasyllabic, such as that of Milton's Paradise Lost, or of the dramas of Shakespeare. Erom Shakespeare's time it has been the kind of verse almost universally used by dramatic writers, who often employ an additional syllable, making the lines not strictly decasyllabic. The term is not applied to the Anglo-Saxon and Early English alliterative unrhymed verse.
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The Earl of Surrey (Henry Howard) was an English poet and soldier. He was born in 1517 and died in 1547. He introduced blank verse into English poetry. He fought in the French wars in 1543 and was wounded at Montreuil in 1544. In 1547 he was charged with plotting against the crown and was beheaded.
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Thomas Howard (second Earl of Surrey) was an English lord admiral. He was born in 1473 and died in 1554. He was created Earl of Surrey in 1513 after taking part in the Battle of Flodden. He was later Duke of Norfolk and in 1546 was condemned to death, but the death of Henry VIII saved him.
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The Earl of Surrey is a character in King Henry IV part II and in King Richard III and in King Henry VIII.
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