Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, translated the Aeneid and is credited with using blank verse in English for the first time (composed c. 1540; published posthumously, 1554–1557).
An adaptation of the free verse poetry of classical Greece and Rome, blank verse originally arose in Renaissance Italy in the sixteenth century. The Aeneid of Virgil was translated by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who introduced it to England in the 1550s.
Poetry composed in unrhymed iambic pentameter is referred to as "blank verse." Classical Greek and Latin literature laid the foundation for the idea of blank verse as a poetic form.
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