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The Sonnet in the Renaissance

The Sonnet in the Renaissance   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

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Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature
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The sonnet enjoyed its greatest vogue in England in the decade of the 1590s. The pirated publication of Sir Philip

Sonnet

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
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713 words

(sonetto). The normal form, from its beginnings to the present day, is of fourteen hendecasyllables, divided into

Sonett

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The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
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233 words

in origin a Romance form, occurs in German abundantly in the 17th c., virtually disappears in the 18th c., and

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World Encyclopedia

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
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42 words

Poem of 14 lines, most often in iambic pentameter and usually employing Petrarchan or Shakespearean rhyme schemes. The Petrarchan consists

Sonnet

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

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2005
Subject:
History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
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502 words
A poetic form that originated in thirteenth-century Provence and Italy. Petrarch's sonnets, which consisted of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter verse (or alexandrines in France) divided ... More
sonnets

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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

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Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
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740 words

are short poems, usually in fourteen decasyllabic lines, rhyming according to different conventions, the main types of which are the

Sonnet

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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
443 words

(from Italian sonetto, a small sound or song).

If Clément Marot was the first French poet to publish one,

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