Which statement best explains how lyric poetry became widespread in English literature? A. The earliest English lyric poems were historical ballads that court writers composed to honor heroes.
B. In the sixteenth century, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare popularized lyric poetry in sonnet form.
C. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth created the first lyric poems in English by translating Sappho's works.
D. Geoffrey Chaucer's sonnets of the fourteenth century introduced lyric elements such as a regular rhyme and meter.