English sonnet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of English sonnet
First recorded in 1900–05
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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.
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There is none of the intricate scheming, the subtle inter-weaving of tremulous tones which make D. G. Rossetti's sonnets the most musical of English sonnets.
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It is, of course, the English sonnet which Gascoigne thus describes.
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Some of the best English sonnets have been written by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Mrs. Browning.
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These three head the group and contain the best work, after Shakespere and Spenser and Sidney, in the English sonnet of the time.
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