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en-wikipedia-org-1809		Blank verse - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2193	217	80	The title page of Robert Andrews' translation of Virgil into English blank verse, printed by John Baskerville in 1766 History of English blank verse[edit] Christopher Marlowe was the first English author to achieve critical notoriety for his use of blank verse[citation needed]. The major achievements in English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and John Milton, whose Paradise Lost is written in blank verse. Romantic English poets such as William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats used blank verse as a major form. Blank verse was not much used in the non-dramatic poetry of the 17th century until Paradise Lost, in which Milton used it with much license and tremendous skill. Blank verse in German literature[edit] ^ Robert Burns Shaw, Blank Verse: A Guide to its History and Use (Ohio University Press, 2007), page 1. Blank Verse: A guide to its history and use.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1809.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1809.txt