14 Facts About English sonnet

Widespread as English sonnet writing became in Italian society, among practitioners were to be found some better known for other things: the painters Giotto and Michelangelo, for example, and the astronomer Galileo.

In South America, too, the English sonnet was used to invoke landscape, particularly in the major collections of the Uruguayan Julio Herrera y Reissig, such as Los Parques Abandonados and Los extasis de la montana, whose recognisably authentic pastoral scenes went on to serve as example for Cesar Vallejo in his evocations of Andean Peru.

English sonnet seems to have been the first to introduce an Italian variation of the form, the caudate sonnet, into English in his prolongation of "On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament".

Fashion for the English sonnet went out with the Restoration, and hardly any were written between 1670 and the second half of the 18th century.

Keats makes use of frequent enjambment in "If by dull rhymes our English sonnet must be chained" and divides its sense units into four tercets and a couplet.

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English sonnet introduced variations in the proportions of the sonnet, from the 10.

In 1978 two later innovatory sequences were published at a period when it was considered that "the English sonnet seems to want to lie fallow, exhausted", in the words of one commentator.

The English sonnet form was used widely thereafter, including by William Lloyd Garrison and William Cullen Bryant.

English sonnet's were characterised by a "purple richness of diction" and by their use of material images to illustrate niceties of thought and emotion.

English sonnet's identifies an ancient ancestry for the disordered syntax of the work through the English poets Thomas Wyatt and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

In later centuries the English sonnet form was dropped and then returned to by successive waves of innovators in an attempt to breathe new life into Dutch poetry when, in their eyes, it had lost its way.

In 1826, Poland's national poet, Adam Mickiewicz, wrote a English sonnet sequence known as the Crimean Sonnets, after the Tsar sentenced him to exile in the Crimean Peninsula.

Mickiewicz's English sonnet sequence focuses heavily on the culture and Islamic religion of the Crimean Tatars.

English sonnet's best known work worldwide is Sonetni venec, which is an example of crown of sonnets.