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language areas and eventually any subject was considered acceptable for writers of sonnets. Impatience with the set form resulted in many variations over the...

The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, although it was not developed by...

Sonnet 130 is a sonnet by William Shakespeare, published in 1609 as one of his 154 sonnets. It mocks the conventions of the showy and flowery courtly sonnets...

poetry and novels and is considered the first important African American sonnet writer.[page needed] Since the late 20th century, scholars have become more...

wide range of subjects in an equally wide range of tones. Both writers cemented the sonnet's enduring appeal by demonstrating its flexibility and lyrical...

list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M...

"Ozymandias" (/ˌɒziˈmændiəs/ o-zee-MAN-dee-əs) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822). It was first published...

expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 59 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a...

The Sonnets to Orpheus (German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)...

Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, focuses on the theme of old age. The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth. Each of...

one of the most exceptional writers of the late 19th century and early twentieth century. He is the first sonnet writer of Assamese language. The credit...

stanza (Russian: онегинская строфа oneginskaya strofa), sometimes "Pushkin sonnet", refers to the verse form popularized (or invented) by the Russian poet...

Sonnet L'Abbé, is a Canadian poet, editor, professor and critic. As a poet, L'Abbé writes about national identity, race, gender and language. L'Abbé has...

Nightingale" * Sonnet IV, "To the Moon" Sonnet V, "To the South Downs" * Sonnet VI, "To Hope" Sonnet VII, "On the Departure of the Nightingale" * Sonnet VIII,...

The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy...

French literature as "The Poet of a single poem." The sonnet is also known around the world as the Sonnet d'Arvers: Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère...

used interchangeably with the term "sonnet". Various writers have tried to draw distinctions between "true" sonnets and quatorzains. Nowadays the term...

character) Hemendra Kumar Roy - writer of juvenile literature Michael Modhusudan Dutt - creator of Bengali sonnet, writer of Meghnadbadh Kavya Pulak Bandyopadhyay...

"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art" is a love sonnet by John Keats. It is unclear when Keats first drafted "Bright Star"; his biographers...

Sonnet 57 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the...