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Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey is generously represented in the miscellany, and credited with creating the English (or Shakespearean) form of sonnet. Richard Tottel was an English publisher with a shop at Temple Bar on Fleet Street in London. His main business was the publication of law textbooks but his biggest contribution to English literature ...
This template should be placed at the top of each article for William Shakespeare's individual sonnets (e.g. Sonnet 1). It provides navigation to the previous and next sonnets in the sequence, a place for an image from the 1609 Quarto with caption, and houses the full text of the sonnet with verse structure apparatus and citation.
William Bowles' sonnets on the Itchen [32] and the Cherwell [33] bring him melancholy recollections of his personal past. Where such associations are absent, as in the sonnets "To the River Wenbeck" and "To the River Tweed", it is the consolatory power of nature, not altogether absent from the others, which is emphasised. [34]
A crown of sonnets or sonnet corona is a sequence of sonnets, usually addressed to one person, and/or concerned with a single theme.Each of the sonnets explores one aspect of the theme, and is linked to the preceding and succeeding sonnets by repeating the final line of the preceding sonnet as its first line.
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In form, each 'sonnet' comprises four sets of internally rhyming quatrains, where the final quatrain either sums up the poem's drift or else serves as a turning point that takes the meaning in a new direction. In this way it corresponds roughly to the final couplet of the conventional Shakespearian sonnet.