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This category contains a selection of articles about the 154 individual sonnets written by William Shakespeare. For more information see Shakespeare's Sonnets Poetry portal
Sonnets using this scheme are known as Shakespearean sonnets, or English sonnets, or Elizabethan sonnets. Often, at the end of the third quatrain occurs the volta ("turn"), where the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a turn of thought.
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) [1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. [note 1]
Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, in which, “while declaring his love for his mistress, he mocks the Petrarchan standard vocabulary of praise”, is an example that marks English independence from the conventions of Petrarch. [9] The English sonnet sequences “exemplify the Renaissance doctrine of creative imitation as defined by Petrarch”. [10]
Fulke Greville, Caelica (1633), 109 sonnets. Shakespeare Sonnets (1609), 154 sonnets to a variety of unnamed people, both male and female. Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621), 83 sonnets, included in Urania. Other English and Scottish sonnet collections and sequences of the period include:
Sonnet 14 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. Structure
English Romantic sonnets; H. Holy Sonnets; I. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; K. The Kraken (poem) L. ... Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Shakespeare's sonnets;
Thorpe edition of the sonnets. Thorpe is identified by his initials, T.T. Thomas Thorpe (c. 1569 – c. 1625) was an English publisher, most famous for publishing Shakespeare's sonnets and several works by Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. His publication of the sonnets has long been controversial.