Who was a favorite poet of Queen Elizabeth I?

Answer 1

Elizabeth loved the arts - especially poetry, which blossomed during the Golden Age. A close friend, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of Elizabeth's most beloved poets. His poems included Silent Lover, The Life, His Pilgrimage and Even Such is Time. Elizabeth was also fond of the poems of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, John Webster and Christopher Marlowe.