The development of the sonnet
Sonnets
Italian influences
English Sonnets
English poetry, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700
Early modern
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM
English poetry
Poetry
Nonfiction
History and criticism
History
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.
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