| Introduction |
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The Elizabethan Sonnet-Literature |
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The Supremacy of Petrarch |
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The Sonnet in Sixteenth-Century Italy |
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The Sonnet in Sixteenth-Century France |
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The First Coming of the Sonnet in Sixteenth-Century England |
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The Earliest Elizabethan Sonneteers—Sidney and Watson |
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The Zenith of the Sonneteering Vogue in Elizabethan England—Daniel and Constable |
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Lodge, Barnes, and Fletcher |
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Drayton and Spenser |
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Poetæ Minimi |
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Conclusion |
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| Syr P[hilip] S[idney]—His Astrophel and Stella. Wherein the excellence of sweet Poesy is concluded |
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| Sundry other rare Sonnets of divers Noble men and Gentlemen, 1591 |
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| Sir Philip Sidney—Sonnets and Poetical Translations, 1598 |
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| Thomas Watson—The Tears of Fancie, or, Loue Disdained, 1593 |
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| Barnabe Barnes—Parthenophil and Parthenophe. Sonnets, Madrigals, Elegies, and Odes, 1593 |
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| Thomas Lodge—Phillis Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights, 1593 |
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| Giles Fletcher, LL.D.—Licia, or, Poems of Love in Honour of the admirable and singular virtues of his Lady. To the imitation of the best Latin Poets, and others, 1593 |
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| Henry Constable and others—Diana, or, The excellent conceitful Sonnets of H. C. Augmented with divers Quatorzains of honourable and learned personages. Divided into viii. Decades, 1584 [vere 1594] |
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| Samuel Daniel—Delia (1594) |
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| William Percy—Sonnets to the Fairest Cœlia, 1594 |
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| Anonymous—Zepheria, 1594 |
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| Michael Drayton—Idea. In sixty-three Sonnets, 1594–1619 |
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| Edmund Spenser—Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1595 |
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| Bartholomew Griffin—Fidessa, more chaste than kind, 1596 |
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| R[ichard] L[inche]—Diella. Certain Sonnets, adjoined to the amorous poem of Dom Diego and Gyneura, 1596 |
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| William Smith—Chloris, or The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepherd, 1596 |
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| R[obert] T[ofte]—Laura, The Toys of a Traveller: or The Feast of Fancy. Divided into Three Parts, 1597 |
