The development of the sonnet

By Michael R. G. Spiller

Subjects: English Sonnets, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English poetry, Sonnet, Sonnets, Nonfiction, English poetry, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Sonnets, history and criticism, POETRY, Italian influences, Literary Criticism, History and criticism, History, Early modern, Sonnets, English

Description: Traces the development of the sonnet from its invention in the early Italian Renaissance to the time of John Milton, showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express lyrically the nature of the desiring self.