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  2. Sonnets to Orpheus - Wikipedia

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    Original text. Die Sonette an Orpheus at German Wikisource. The Sonnets to Orpheus (German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) [1] are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian - Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). It was first published the following year. Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense ...

  3. Holy Sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Handwritten draft of Donne's Sonnet XIV, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God", likely in the hand of Donne's friend, Rowland Woodward, from the Westmoreland manuscript (circa 1620) The Holy Sonnets —also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets —are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631).

  4. Death Be Not Proud - Wikipedia

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    Lines. 14. " Sonnet X ", also known by its opening words as " Death Be Not Proud ", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.

  5. To the South Downs - Wikipedia

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    The poem was first published in The European Magazine in October 1782, and reprinted in The New Annual Register in January 1784, before being collected in Smith's 1784 volume of poetry Elegiac Sonnets. [2] Ah, hills beloved!—where once, a happy child, Your beechen shades, “your turf, your flowers, among,”. I wove your bluebells into ...

  6. Tottel's Miscellany - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Sonnet sequence - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet sequence. 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 also be read as a meaningful separate unit. The sonnet sequence was a very popular genre during the Renaissance, following the pattern of Petrarch.

  8. Sonnets from the Portuguese - Wikipedia

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    Sonnets from the Portuguese, written c. 1845–1846 and published first in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular during the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Despite what the title implies, the sonnets are entirely Browning's own, and not translated from ...

  9. Sonnet 17 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 17 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is the final poem of what are referred to by scholars as the procreation sonnets (Sonnets 1-17) with which the Fair Youth sequence opens. Sonnet 17 questions the poet's descriptions of the sequence's young man, believing that future generations ...