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Elizabethan sonnet

British  

noun

  1. another term for Shakespearean sonnet

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

A strain of personal emotion is occasionally discernible in a detached effort, and is vaguely traceable in a few sequences; but autobiographical confessions were very rarely the stuff of which the Elizabethan sonnet was made. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

Critically appraised, Warton's treatment of the Elizabethan sonnet seems skimpy.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

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