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    Sonnet 38 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...
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    wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were...
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  • The term sonnet refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. It derives from the Italian...
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  • The Spenserian sonnet is a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. A Spenserian sonnet consists of fourteen lines, which are broken into four stanzas:...
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    coat of arms is Give Invention Light, which is taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 38. The university has also used the slogans Be Inspired and Confronting...
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    Sonnet 21 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare and is part of the Fair Youth sequence. Like Sonnet 130...
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    previous three sonnets. Sonnet 27 similarly deals with night, sleep, and dreams. Sonnet 43 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. English sonnets contain three...
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  • Sonnet 29 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises...
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    It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence. This sonnet continues the theme of Sonnet 38 (38 sonnets ago), in which the sweet argument of the young man...
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    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...
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    Amoretti (category Sonnet studies)
    Amoretti is a sonnet cycle written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century. The cycle describes his courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. Amoretti...
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    Sonnet 4 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence...
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    William Shakespeare (category Sonneteers)
    extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship...
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    Sonnet 36 is one of 154 Shakespeare's sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence...
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    Spent" (also known as "On His Blindness") is one of the best known of the sonnets of John Milton (1608–1674). The last three lines are particularly well...
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  • Poetry (section Sonnet)
    structures may even be semantic (e.g. the volta required in a Petrachan sonnet). Most written poems are formatted in verse: a series or stack of lines...
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    Son Seung-yeon (redirect from Sonnet Son)
    Son Seung-yeon (born September 15, 1993), also known as Sonnet Son, is a South Korean singer. She is a winner of The Voice of Korea and is a frequent guest...
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    as the character develops. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play. Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous...
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    Thomas Wyatt (poet) (category Sonneteers)
    English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature. He was born at Allington Castle near Maidstone in...
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    Sonnet 78 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is one of the Fair Youth sequence, and the...
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    expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 59 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a...
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    innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle Delia, the epic poem The Civil Wars Between the Houses of Lancaster...
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    Myrholt, except for "Sonnet #CXLIV" by William Shakespeare. Track listing The Masquerade of Rhapsody - 3:33 Colleen - 1:54 Sonnet #CXLIV - 4:26 And to...
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    Sonnet 46 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...
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    Sonnet 124 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which a poet...
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  • Three songs are settings of William Shakespeare's sonnets ("Sonnet 10", "Sonnet 20", and "Sonnet 43"). Following larger projects such as his tribute...
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    those of Andromeda and Perseus. John Keats's 1819 sonnet On the Sonnet compares the restricted sonnet form to the bound Andromeda as being "Fetter'd, in...
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  • ABCB Sonnet, 14 lines: 4 + 4 + 3 + 3 lines: Petrarchan sonnet: ABBA ABBA CDE CDE or ABBA ABBA CDC DCD 4 + 4 + 4 + 2 lines Shakespearean sonnet: ABAB...
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    Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (category Sonneteers)
    excellent translations of Petrarch's sonnets, are known as "Fathers of the English Sonnet". While Wyatt introduced the sonnet form into English poetry, Howard...
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     31–32, 39; Stopes 1922, pp. 35–38, 86. Robert Giroux, 1982, The Book Known As Q: A consideration of Shakespeare's sonnets, Atheneum, p. 80 Akrigg 1968,...
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