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
The comparison of lips with coral is not uncommon outside the Elizabethan sonnet, but it was universal there.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
The Elizabethan sonnet sequences; studies in conventional conceits. © 26Oct38; A123373.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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