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    A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sicilian city of Palermo. The...
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  • scholars. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of Canadian poets List of Canadian playwrights List of Canadian short...
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  • Iambic pentameter (category Sonnet studies)
    William Shakespeare famously used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets, John Milton in his Paradise Lost, and William Wordsworth in The Prelude...
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    with two. For this, è is used widely in poetry, e.g., in Shakespeare's sonnets. J. R. R. Tolkien used ë, as in O wingëd crown. Similarly, while in chicken...
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    cross acrostic crown of sonnets curtain raiser curtal sonnet Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References dactyl...
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    Philip Sidney (category Sonneteers)
    the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a sonnet sequence, Astrophel and Stella, a treatise, The Defence of Poesy (also known...
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  • Kyd c. 1590 – c. 1612 – Shakespeare's plays written 1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets published Other playwrights: Ben Jonson Thomas Dekker Beaumont and Fletcher...
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    Émile Nelligan (category Sonneteers)
    primevères; Et je restai là, morne, avec les yeux pensifs, Et j'entendais en moi des marteaux convulsifs Renfoncer les clous noirs des intimes Calvaires...
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    (1977) Arrow (1982) Vector (1986) Duofold International (1987) 95 (1988) Sonnet (1993) Parker 100 (2004) The Parker 25 was a pen introduced by the Parker...
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    Lapiths and centaurs was a familiar symposium theme for the vase-painters. A sonnet vividly evoking the battle by the French poet José María de Heredia (1842–1905)...
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