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development of English sonnet tradition
English Renaissance poetry
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literary influence studies
Lyric
Petrarchan tradition
poetic form analysis
Poetry
Renaissance
sixteenth-century English verse
Tudor literary history
Wyatt
Product details
- ISBN 9781041277316
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This classic study of the Elizabethan sonnet, first published in 1956 and as a second edition in 1965, describes the development of the English sonnet from the early poems of Wyatt and Surrey, which were strongly influenced by Petrarch, to the great original sonnets of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. The book’s underlying theme is the literary tradition which inspired the greatest Elizabethan sonnets. The tradition reaches back to a European, especially an Italian past, but it was adapted and transformed by distinctively English attitudes, the resulting tension supplying the main dynamic of development.
