Elizabethan sonnet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Lock’s name wasn’t in my old Norton anthology, published in 1993, in which “Astrophil and Stella” is hailed as the first of the great Elizabethan sonnet cycles.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019
A fiery keepsake, condensing portrait and love poem, it's the equivalent of an Elizabethan sonnet.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011
But the trials they must endure, the plot of their quests, remain much the same, as formal and stylized as kabuki or an Elizabethan sonnet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like the lover in the Elizabethan sonnet, 'She had been vexed, if vexed she had not been!'
From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
This continuation completes briefly the analysis of Elizabethan satire and discusses the Elizabethan sonnet.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas
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