LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Spenserian
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Italian
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Petrarchan
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Detailed explanation-1: -While Shakespeare was not the first English poet to use the sonnet form, he did succeed in making it his own, changing its rhyme scheme and developing a distinctive structure that quickly became known as the ‘Shakespearean Sonnet’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thanks largely to the cultural awareness of William Shakespeare’s sonnets in particular (who among us doesn’t know the line “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”), “sonnet” is almost a household word.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sonnet 2. ‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’ Sonnet 12. ‘When do I count the clock that tells the time’ Sonnet 17. ‘Who will believe my verse in time to come’ Sonnet 18. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ Sonnet 20. Sonnet 23. Sonnet 27. Sonnet 29. More items