A sonneteer is a poet that composes sonnets, though the individual may not necessarily write poetry exclusively in that particular poetic form. The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, one of the best-known early Italian sonnet writers. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...
All the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise.
Sonnets which were published and probably written before Shakespeare's, and influenced both the material he used and the arrangement of his sonnet sequence.
The Petrarchansonnet consists of an octave, or eight-line stanza, and a sestet, or six-line stanza.
Excellent examples of the Petrarchansonnet in the English language are found in the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591) by Sir Philip Sidney, which established the form in England.
William Wordsworth is regarded as the finest sonnet writer of the period, although outstanding sonnets were also written by his contemporaries Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats.
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