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Introduction Shakespearean sonnets
The tradition of sonnets
Petrarch
italian humanist
invented all the images+conventions
chivalry
spring
mistress
became clichés
impossible separate from him and translation
collaboration
SH = break
1st group of sonnets = addressed to M
strong friendship
unconventional topics
renting
daily life
ordinary man
agric
trade
other writers of the time
Wyatt
imported sonnets
became fashionable
Surrey
Spenser ; the faerie queen
Competition
most successf form in 1590s
published in 1609/ written bf
ballad also
narrative story + characters / Country verse
More refined + prodigious (//plays)
restricted readers =educated
soc distinction
Elizabethan world
Court
Q <3 sonnets
idealization of the mistress
reference to them to please them
patrons + readership
world of miniature
miniature plays
vanitas painting
full of allegories
moral lesson
v. connected to arts
Encyclopedia, historical source
property, agric, hunting, medicine, travel, gardens, arts...
Repetition
seasons
agriculture
fertility
giving birth to sonnets
music
echoes
2nd + 3rd grouping related
The Dark Lady Sonnets + The Greek Sonnets
Copia
1st + 2nd answer one another also
Rhetoric
puns
sonnets read aloud
metaphors
riding a horse = desire
rhetoric figures to convince
arguments
Volta
reversal = rhyming couplet
wit
quatrains
each stanza an idea
Copia
same idea expressed in diff ways
persuade
Revolutionary language (ex renting)
fashionable + new words
latin
ordinary words
saxon
metapoetic
How sonnets should be written
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
sonnet as a stage
R+J
legacy
wrote poems to become eternal
// death