ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Signify, Lyric Poetry, Sonnet 129
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Renaissance, when the poet petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named laura. Taking firm hold among italian poets, the sonnet spread throughout europe to england, where, after its initial renaissance, petrarchan incarnation faded, the form enjoyed a number of revivals and periods of renewed interest. England the era during which shakespeare"s sonnets were written the sonnet was the form of choice for lyric poets, particularly lyric poets seeking to engage with traditional themes of love and romance. (in addition to shakespeare"s monumental sequence, the astrophel and. Stella sequence by sir philip sydney stands as one of the most important sonnet sequences of this period. ) Sonnets were also written during the height of classical english verse, by dryden and pope, among others, and written again during the heyday of english romanticism, when. Wordsworth, shelley, and particularly john keats created wonderful sonnets.
