![]() Dante, Shakespeare, Donne, Barrett Browning, Rilke. Thus one could regard the emotions evoked to be as artificial as the conventions with which they are presented. the sonnet sequence has captured the attention of some of Europes and Americas greatest poets. An exception is Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, where the wooing is successful, and the sequence ends with an Epithalamion, a marriage song.Īlthough many sonnet sequences at least pretend to be autobiographical, the genre became a very stylised one, and most sonnet sequences are better approached as attempts to create an erotic persona in which wit and originality plays with the artificiality of the genre. The subject is usually the speaker's unhappy love for a distant beloved, following the courtly love tradition of the troubadours, from whom the genre ultimately derived. ![]() that the sequence as a whole seems to tell about Shakespeares love life. ![]() Sonnet sequences are typically closely based on Petrarch, either closely emulating his example or working against it. In About Shakespeares Sonnets, experts Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Shakespeares sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. A sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work, although generally, unlike the stanza, each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit.
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