The English Sonnet

admirable Astrophel and Stella beauty blank verse clinch critical dear death decasyllabic stanza decasyllables delight desire divine Dobell doth earth EDMUND SPENSER eight lines emotion eyes fair fame final couplet finest fourteen fourteen-line poem glory hand hath heart heaven high poetry JOHN MILTON Joshua Sylvester Keats Leigh Hunt live look lyric Mark Pattison melody MICHAEL DRAYTON Milton mind modern English sonnet modern sonnet mould nature never night o'er octet content passion pause perfect perhaps Petrarc Petrarcan octet pieces poet poetic praise pure quatrain rhymed couplet Rossetti rule scorn sestet Shake Shakespeare's sonnets Shakespearean Sidney sing sleep sonnet form sonnet poetry sonnet sequence soul sound speare Spenser spirit subsidence Surrey sweet Swinburne Tennyson tercets thee theory things Thomas Thorpe thought tion true unto Watts-Dunton wave whole WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH word write written wrote Wyatt