Elizabethan Courtly Love: Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I

Jun 8, 2012

Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554-1618) well known as an Elizabethan explorer and soldier, is also known to have written a sonnet entitled Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love.  It is believed that Raleigh wrote this sonnet as a response to the rise of Robert Devereux,...