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    Sonnet 39 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 derives from the Italian word sonetto (lit. 'little song', from the Latin word sonus, lit. 'sound'). It refers to a fixed verse poetic...
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    William Shakespeare's sonnet 116 was first published in 1609. Its structure and form are a typical example of the Shakespearean sonnet. The poet begins by...
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    Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which...
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    The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical...
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  • A sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work, although generally, unlike the stanza, each sonnet so connected can...
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    Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631). The sonnets...
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    Ozymandias (category Sonnets)
    "Ozymandias" (/ˌɒziˈmændiəs/ ah-zee-MAN-dee-us) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11...
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  • "Sonnet to Science" (originally "Sonnet — To Science") is an 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. Poe asks...
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    referred to as the Fair Youth sequence. Sonnet 55 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final...
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    Sonnet 66 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 the...
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    (1564–1616) was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. The Shakespeare apocrypha...
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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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    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,...
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    William Shakespeare (category Sonneteers)
    Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain...
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    Sonnet 42 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a part of the Fair Youth section of the sonnets...
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    Petrarch (category Sonneteers)
    as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and...
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    Sonnet 87 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence, and sometimes...
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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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    John Donne (category Sonneteers)
    poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs...
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    Eurydike. Hermes", a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1907) Sonnets to Orpheus, an allusive sonnet sequence by poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1922) The Song of Orpheus...
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  • Seven Sonnets & a Song is the twenty-first studio album by Australian musician, Paul Kelly, which was issued on 22 April 2016 on his own label, Gawdaggie...
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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti (category Sonneteers)
    especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work. He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his...
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    Sonnet 32 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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    from the original on February 5, 2023. Retrieved February 5, 2023. Swire, Sonnet (February 4, 2023). "What to know about the suspected Chinese spy balloon"...
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    Saab Sonett (redirect from Saab Sonnet)
    gear and 9 teeth on the pinion gear) than the standard 95/96 transmission (39:8)—achieved a top speed of 165 km/h (103 mph), aided by a drag coefficient...
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    activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883...
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    Solomon ibn Gabirol, and Abraham ibn Ezra. In Italy, Petrarch developed the sonnet form pioneered by Giacomo da Lentini and Dante's Vita Nuova. In 1327, according...
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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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