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... sonnet of idealized love . The sonnet , one of the most popular verse forms not only of Eliza- bethan literature in England but of Renaissance European literature as a whole , developed first in Italy in the twelfth century before pass ...
... sonnet of idealized love . The sonnet , one of the most popular verse forms not only of Eliza- bethan literature in England but of Renaissance European literature as a whole , developed first in Italy in the twelfth century before pass ...
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... sonnet . As a result , his sonnets are less good than his lighter lyrics : he is not always quite sure where the accent falls in a given word , nor is he always able to keep before the reader's ear the basic swell of the metrical design ...
... sonnet . As a result , his sonnets are less good than his lighter lyrics : he is not always quite sure where the accent falls in a given word , nor is he always able to keep before the reader's ear the basic swell of the metrical design ...
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... sonnet and helped to set the fashion for sequences of love sonnets . But only one original sonnet of Wat- son's in this volume was a poem of fourteen lines of the kind to which we now restrict the term " sonnet ” : Watson called it a ...
... sonnet and helped to set the fashion for sequences of love sonnets . But only one original sonnet of Wat- son's in this volume was a poem of fourteen lines of the kind to which we now restrict the term " sonnet ” : Watson called it a ...
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