sonnet sequence in a sentence
Examples
- Likely composed in the 1580s, it is the first of the famous English sonnet sequences, and contains 108 sonnets and 11 songs.
- She was known not only for her poems, including sonnet sequences, but for a private life scandalous by the standards of her time.
- His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence, " The House of Life ".
- These are followed by the sonnet sequence " The Quest " and a verse " Epilogue " ( " Returning each morning from a timeless world " ).
- It was, however, Sir Philip Sidney's sequence " Astrophel and Stella " ( 1591 ) that started the English vogue for sonnet sequences.
- "Amoretti " has been largely overlooked and unappreciated by critics, who see it as inferior to other major Renaissance sonnet sequences in the Petrarchan tradition.
- He was the great-grandfather of the poet, Henry Constable, author of " Diana ", one of the first sonnet sequences in English.
- J . M . Coetzee included this sonnet sequence in an anthology of his English translations of Dutch poetry entitled " Landscape with Rowers " ( 2004 ).
- The next two decades saw sonnet sequences by William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, Fulke Greville, William Drummond of Hawthornden, and many others.
- Penelope is traditionally thought to have inspired Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence " Astrophel and Stella " ( sometimes spelled " Astrophil and Stella " ).