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sonnet sequence
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sonnet sequence
n.
A group of sonnets having a single subject or controlling idea. Also called sonnet cycle.
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The dates of the poems are not completely certain [193-95]; Ashenden does not consider the possibility that the sequence may have been made up of poems written over more than two years, pretending to take place in a briefer period, as occurs with some sonnet sequences.
Charles Williams: Alchemy and Integration by Christopher, Joe R. / Mythlore
Montgomery presents a formal close reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) as evocations and parodies of the Petrarchan commonplaces established in sonnet sequences by Sir Philip Sidney (1591), Samuel Daniel (1592), and Edmund Spenser (1595).
The Perfect Ceremony of Love's Rite: Shakespeare's by Gaskill, Gayle / Renaissance Quarterly
In a series of illuminating discussions, he looks at lyric poems by Wyatt, the sonnet sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, and the Faerie Queene.
Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England by Guy-Bray, Stephen / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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