English sonnet

American  

noun

1. Shakespearean sonnet.

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Etymology

Origin of English sonnet

First recorded in 1900–05

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• Italian vs. English sonnet

Example Sentences

The first English sonnet cycle was Philip Sidney’s “Astrophil and Stella,” published in 1591.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019

Among students and scholars of Persian literature, she was recognized for her command — and renovation — of the ghaza l, a poetic form that is often compared with an English sonnet.

From Washington Post

These three head the group and contain the best work, after Shakespere and Spenser and Sidney, in the English sonnet of the time.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

The English sonnet too much tampered with becomes a sort of bastard madrigal.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

For many of Wordsworth's and most of Mrs. Browning's sonnets, though they have the rime-scheme of the Italian, have the simple thought arrangement of the English sonnet.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin