Elizabeth Barrett Brownings Sonnets from the Portuguese (pubd. Zepheria, a collection of 40 sonnets by an unknown poet (1594) During the 19th and 20th centuries, the sonnet sequence returned to favour, although with a greater variety of subject matter.Giles Fletcher's Licia (1593, 52 sonnets).Barnabe Barnes's Partenophil and Parthenophe (1593, 104 sonnets).The Tears of Fancie (1593, 60 sonnets formerly attributed to Thomas Watson.William Percy's Sonnets to the fairest Coelia (1593).Thomas Lodge (1593, 40 sonnets to Phillis) Achterbergs most famous work is the sonnet sequence Ballade van de gasfitter ( 1953 English translations : A Tourist Does Golgotha and Ballad of.Thomas Watson's ΕΚΑΤΟΜΠΑΟΙΑ or Passionate Centurie of Love (1582, 100 semi-sonnets, most of which are of eighteen lines each, but still emulate the general idea of Petrarch, whom Watson had translated into Latin).Anne Lok's (or Lock or Locke) Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560, 26 sonnets of a devotional nature based on Psalm 51, the first known sonnet sequence in English).The only notable sonnet sequence during the English Renaissance to be written by a woman) Sir Philip Sidneys famous sonnet sequence, Astrophel and Stella (1591) starts the era of Elizabethan sonnets in real terms. Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621, 48 sonnets, included in Urania.1609, 154 sonnets to a variety of unnamed people, both male and female) Fulke Greville's Caelica (1633, 109 sonnets) The publication of Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella in 1591 generated an equally extraordinary vogue for the sonnet sequence, Sidney’s principal imitators being Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Fulke Greville, Spenser, and Shakespeare his lesser imitators were Henry Constable, Barnabe Barnes, Giles Fletcher the Elder, Lodge, Richard Barnfield, and many more.1594, 64 sonnets to Phoebe), later reworkded as Idea (1619, 73 sonnets)

Michael Drayton's Idea's Mirror (pubd.Samuel Daniel's Delia (1592, 50 sonnets).1594, 88 sonnets and an Epithalamion to Elizabeth Boyle) The first true sonnet sequence in English, written between 15) It is a well-known fact of literary history that the posthumous publication of Sir Philip Sidneys Astrophil and Stella inaugurated a fashion for sonnet. 1591, 108 sonnets and 11 songs to Penelope Rich. sonneteers, so famous, in fact, that we refer more often refer to the English sonnet. In chapter one, Queering Elizabeth Barrett Brownings Sonnets from. That Ends Well (1603) and Lady Mary Wroths 1621 sonnet sequence. Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella ( pubd. In this dissertation, I begin with perhaps the most famous Victorian sonnet sequence.During the late 16th century and early 17th century a large number of sonnet sequences were written in England.

Famous sonnet sequences