Who Invented Iambic Pentameters?

It was Philip Sidney

, apparently influenced by Italian poetry, who used large numbers of "Italian" lines and thus is often considered to have reinvented iambic pentameter in its final form. He was also more adept than his predecessors in working polysyllabic words into the meter.

When was iambic pentameter invented?

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, introduced the metre, along with the sonnet and other Italian humanist verse forms, to England in the early 16th century.

How did iambic pentameter come about?

Oddly enough, although the term "iambic pentameter" refers to a metrical pattern written in English, the term itself originates from Greek! ... First off, we come by Ancient Greek metrical tradition, like marble statues and democracy, by way of the Romans.