By the 14th century, the form further crystallized under the pen of Petrarch, whose sonnets were later translated in the 16th century by Sir Thomas Wyatt, who is credited with introducing the sonnet form into English literature.

Petrarch polished and perfected the sonnet form inherited from Giacomo da Lentini and which Dante widely used in his Vita nuova to popularise the new courtly love of the Dolce Stil Novo.

He was unable to write poetry for months because of his anguish over his wife's death, but eventually he composed, inspired by Petrarch, the sonnet Op de dood van Sterre ( On the death of Sterre ), which was well received.

In Italy, Petrarch developed the sonnet form pioneered by Giacomo da Lentini, which Dante used in his Vita Nuova.

Petrarch popularized the sonnet as a poetic form ; Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron made romance acceptable in prose as well as poetry ; François Rabelais rejuvenates satire with Gargantua and Pantagruel ; Michel de Montaigne single-handedly invented the essay and used it to catalog his life and ideas.

Accounts of Renaissance literature usually begin with Petrarch ( best known for the elegantly polished vernacular sonnet sequence of the Canzoniere and for the craze for book collecting that he initiated ) and his friend and contemporary Boccaccio ( author of the Decameron ).

Berryman's sonnet sequence fits in the long tradition of highly personal sonnet sequences, stretching back through George Meredith's Modern Love to William Shakespeare's sonnets and the sonnets of Petrarch.

e a che ti serve ; in the verses Alla beata Vergine, Al divino amore ; in the sonnet Sulla fede nelle disgrazie the truth and beauty of thought and language recall the verses of Petrarch.

Notable sonnet cycles have been written by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, Rupert Brooke, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Soon however, the impact of Petrarch ( the sonnet cycle addressed to an idealised lover, the use of amorous pardoxes ), Italian poets in the French court ( like Luigi Alamanni ), Italian Neo-platonism and humanism, and the rediscovery of certain Greek poets ( such as Pindar and Anacreon ) would profoundly modify the French tradition.

Giacomo da Lentini is also credited with inventing the sonnet, a form later perfected by Dante and Petrarch.

) for inventing the sonnet, a literary form later perfected by Dante and, most of all, Petrarch.

Petrarch developed the Italian sonnet pattern, which is known to this day as the Petrarchan sonnet or the Italian sonnet.

While Howard tended to use the English sonnet form in his own work, reserving the Petrarchan form for his translations of Petrarch, Wyatt made extensive use of the Italian sonnet form in the poems of his that were not translation and adaptation work.

Soon however, the impact of Petrarch ( the sonnet cycle addressed to an idealised lover, the use of amorous pardoxes ), Italian poets in the French court ( like Luigi Alamanni ), Italian Neoplatonism and humanism, and the rediscovery of certain Greek poets ( such as Pindar and Anacreon ) would profoundly modify the French tradition.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

Like about half of the 1860 - 70 poems, it is a sonnet on a conventional theme -- the unhappiness of love.

it is competent in the sense that it makes a coherent statement without violating the rules of the sonnet form, but it is entirely undistinguished and entirely unlike Hardy.

In the sonnet " To Science " by Edgar Allan Poe, science is said to have " dragged Diana from her car ".

Her best example is in her sequenced sonnet poem entitled Brother and Sister, in which each of the eleven sequenced sonnet ends with a couplet.

" Leda and the Swan " is a sonnet by William Butler Yeats first published in the Dial in 1924.

" Mainstream writers respond that several sonnets literally do tell his name, containing numerous puns on the name Will ; in sonnet 136 the poet directly says " thou lov ' st me for my name is Will.

Similarly, an " a-b-b-a " quatrain ( what is known as " enclosed rhyme ") is used in such forms as the Petrarchan sonnet.

Among the most common forms of poetry through the ages is the sonnet, which by the 13th century was a poem of fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure.

In 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens " The world is too much with us ", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:

When serving in the Bishops ' Wars, he wrote the sonnet ' To Generall Goring ,' which is a poem of Bacchanalian celebration rather than a glorification of military action.

A sonnet is a form of a poem that originated in Europe, mainly Italy: the Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.

One of the best-known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them ( not including those that appear in his plays ).

A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is repeated five times.

The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g ; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

Traditionally, English poets employ iambic pentameter when writing sonnets, but not all English sonnets have the same metrical structure: the first sonnet in Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella, for example, has 12 syllables: it is iambic hexameters, albeit with a turned first foot in several lines.

The sole confirmed surviving sonnet in the Occitan language is confidently dated to 1284, and is conserved only in troubadour manuscript P, an Italian chansonnier of 1310, now XLI. 42 in the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence.

Peter III and the Aragonese cause was popular in northern Italy at the time and Paolo's sonnet is a celebration of his victory over the Angevins and Capetians in the Aragonese Crusade:

The structure of a typical Italian sonnet of this time included two parts that together formed a compact form of " argument ".

Byrd set three of the songs from Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, as well as poems by other members of the Sidney circle, and also included two elegies on Sidney's death in the Battle of Zutphen in 1586.

A sonnet vividly evoking the battle by the French poet José María de Heredia ( 1842-1905 ) was included in his volume Les Trophées.

The university was included in Robert Lowell's sonnet " The Graduate ( Elizabeth ).

His mother, Margory Golding, was the sister of the Ovid translator Arthur Golding, and his uncle, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was the inventor of the English or Shakespearean sonnet form.

The massacre was so brutal that it prompted the English poet John Milton to write the sonnet On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.

He is credited with introducing the sonnet into English.

He and his friend Sir Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form that Shakespeare later used, and Surrey was the first English poet to publish blank verse in his translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil's Aeneid.

While Wyatt introduced the sonnet into English, it was Surrey who gave them the rhyming meter and the division into quatrains that now characterizes the sonnets variously named English, Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnets.

* Astrophel and Stella – The first of the famous English sonnet sequences, Astrophel and Stella was probably composed in the early 1580s.

His experiments with rhyme scheme were no less notable ; they served to free the English sonnet from the strict rhyming requirements of the Italian form.

# REDIRECTSonnet # English ( Shakespearean ) sonnet

There is another variation on the standard English structure, found for example in sonnet 29.

During the eighteenth century, their reputation in England was relatively low ; as late as 1805, The Critical Review could still credit John Milton with the perfection of the English sonnet.

* Shakepeare's Sonnets Overview of each sonnet in contemporary English

It employs the traditional form of a petrarchan sonnet, but it uses the rhyme scheme of an English sonnet.

He was the foremost writer of sonnets in Italian, and translations of his work into English by Thomas Wyatt established the sonnet form in that country, where it was employed by William Shakespeare and countless other poets.

* There are 108 love sonnets in Astrophil and Stella, the first English sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney.

It was at that time that Moraes forsook his older form-free verse and blank verse poetry-in favour of an apparently old-fashioned poetical programme based on respect for traditional forms and extreme metrical accuracy, by excelling onwards in the handling of the rhymed, metrified sonnet, both on the Italian mode generally used in Portuguese-language poetry ( two quatrains, two tercets ) as well as on the English mode ( three quartains and a couplet, printed en bloc ).

" On First Looking into Chapman's Homer " is a sonnet by English Romantic poet John Keats ( 1795-1821 ) written in October 1816.

# REDIRECT Sonnet # English ( Shakespearean ) sonnet

English poetry was exactly at the right stage of development for this transplantation to occur, since forms such as the sonnet were uniquely adapted to setting as madrigals: indeed, the sonnet was already well developed in Italy.