like Samuel Daniel's "Delia," Michael Drayton's "Idea," Edmund Spenser's "Amoretti," and Thomas Lodge's "Phyllis"--as well as more or less forgotten efforts such as Barnabe Barnes' "Parthenope and Parthenophil" and E.C.'s "Emaricdulfe."For all the formulaic elements in these works, their authors frequently achieved surprising things in the endless search for ingenious new similes, zany puns, and outrageous metaphors: a language show of seduction staged within narrow limits of form and content.
from Robert Pinsky: Slate: Lovers' Laments
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