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The Sonnet in the English Renaissance

Index

› Origins› Structure

› Content Representatives

The Sonnet: Origin

The Sonnet

Italy

  • Little Song (Sonneto)
  • Early 14th Century Perefected form
  • Petrarch

Conventions

  • Poet addresses and admires a distant woman
  • Exagerated praise and description
  • poet's pain
  • contradictory ideas (fire and ice)
  • eternal youth
  • Love

England

  • Early 16th Century
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • Translation of Petrarch's Sonnets
  • Mid 16th century final version (Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
  • meter & quatrains

The Sonnet: Structure

Rhyme

Structure

Italian (Petrarch Sonnet)

English (Shakespearen Sonnet)

Sonnet Structure

The Sonnet: Content

Content

› Mortality / Death› Religious Devotion› Self-Deprecation

› Love› Time› Change

The Sonnet: Representatives

Humanism

'I am a citizen of no place, everywhere I am a stranger"

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