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
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
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.
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