Shakespeare's sonnets
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William Shakespeare wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all togeth
Thomas Thorpe's edition of the sonnets (1609)
Dedication page from The Sonnets
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Sonnet 30 as a wall poem in Leiden
Sonnet
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A sonnet is a fixed poetic form with a structure traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. The term derives from the Italian word sonetto. Originating in 13th-centur
Shakespeare's sonnets
…William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first…
The first five sonnets of Petrarch's Il Canzoniere
The Sonnet by William Mulready, 1839
D. G. Rossetti's illuminated description of the sonnet, 1880