Sonnet 130
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Sonnet 130 is a sonnet by William Shakespeare, published in 1609 as one of his 154 sonnets. It mocks the conventions of the showy and flowery courtly sonnets in its realistic portrayal of his mistress
Sonnet 130 in the 1609 Quarto
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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
Sonnet 130
…Sonnet 130 is a sonnet by William Shakespeare, published in 1609 as one of his 154 sonnets. It mocks the conventions of the showy and flowery courtly sonnets in its realistic…
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