Sonnet

The term sonnet is derived from the Provençal word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning little song. By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines following a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure. These have changed during its history.

External links

These links are to sites with texts in English only:

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• Sonnets.org
• From The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti Translated by Ezra Pound
• Some English Translations of Petrarch
• Wyatt's Sonnets
• Shakespeares Sonnets
• Spenser's Sonnets
• Selective Historical Bibliography on the Sonnet = Bibliographie sélective de l'histoire du sonnet
• A Comparison of Samuel Daniel's, "Care-Charmer Sleep" and Pontus de Tyard's, "Père du doux repos, Sommeil, père du Songe"
• William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, "bare ruin'd choirs"
• Sonnet 73: Memorials to Friends
• Shakespeare Sonnets – searchable database
• "Fatal Interview" with Edna Saint Vincent Millay (March 2005)
• Sonnetto Poesia (Canada) ISSN 1705-4524 Sonnetto Poesia is a quarterly international journal of the sonnet.
• Cumulative Index to The Vallance Review, Poetry Life & Times (UK), Sept. 2001
• Sonnet 107: Sonnet of Thanksgiving
• Sonnets of Michael J. Farrand.