Elizabethan sonnet
Britishnoun
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Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting authorial personas and more.
From Salon
A fiery keepsake, condensing portrait and love poem, it's the equivalent of an Elizabethan sonnet.
From The Guardian
This continuation completes briefly the analysis of Elizabethan satire and discusses the Elizabethan sonnet.
From Project Gutenberg
Elizabethan sonnets were commonly the artificial products of the poet’s fancy.
From Project Gutenberg
Nor must the sonnet lean towards either obscurity—the vice of Elizabethan sonnets, or obviousness—the vice of Wordsworth's sonnets after 1820.
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