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A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention.

The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto (from Old Provençal sonet a little poem, from son song, from Latin sonus a sound). By the thirteenth century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. Conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history. Writers of sonnets are sometimes called "sonneteers", although the term can be used derisively.

NameYearsCountryTagsWorksRank
Dante Alighieri1265-1321ITAChristian, Classicism, Epic, Medieval, National, Sonnet, Vernacular2132
Edmund Spenser1552-1599ENGElizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet171100
Philip Sidney1554-1586ENGRenaissance, Elizabethan, Sonnet131179
Samuel Daniel1562-1620ENGSonnet, Laureate, Elizabethan68188
Michael Drayton1563-1631ENGSonnet, Elizabethan79241
William Shakespeare1564-1616ENGBlank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism1983
John Donne1572-1631ENGChristian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet17227
George Herbert1593-1633ENGChristian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Sonnet173102
John Milton1608-1674ENGBlank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular8828
Thomas Gray1716-1771ENGBipolar disorder, Classicism, Enlightenment, Gothic, Graveyard poets, Romanticism, Sonnet11257
Charlotte Smith1749-1806ENGGothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet129138
William Wordsworth1770-1850ENGBlank verse, Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet35710
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792-1822ENGAestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet32518
John Clare1793-1864ENGBipolar disorder, Peasant, Romanticism, Sonnet17295
John Keats1795-1821ENGAestheticism, Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Epic, Gothic, Romanticism, Sonnet1607
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806-1861ENGChristian, Romanticism, Sonnet, Spasmodic, Victorian11833
Charles Baudelaire1821-1867FRARomanticism, Free verse, Impressionism, Dark romanticism, Sonnet, Bipolar disorder, Parnassianism, Symbolism, Modernism, Libertine, Decadents, National13981
Christina Georgina Rossetti1830-1894ENGChristian, Free verse, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Sonnet, Speculative, Spiritualism, Victorian30821
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844-1889ENGBipolar disorder, Christian, Free verse, Modernism, Parnassianism, Sonnet, Victorian81109
Archibald Lampman1861-1899CANSonnet, Confederation poets, Nature158147
William Butler Yeats1865-1939IRLFantasy, Formalism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Rhymers club, Sonnet, Spiritualism, Symbolism, Victorian3785
Robert Frost1874-1963USABlank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular1441
Rainer Maria Rilke1875-1926BOH/DEUChristian, Existentialism, Expressionism, Modernism, Sonnet12752
Rupert Brooke1887-1915ENGBipolar disorder, Dymock poets, Georgian poets, Modernism, Sonnet, War9673
Edna St. Vincent Millay1892-1950USABipolar disorder, Didactism, Feminism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet16669
E.e. cummings1894-1962USAAestheticism, Dada, Didactism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet, Surrealism, Symbolism19015
Pablo Neruda1904-1973CHLAtheism, Modernism, National, Sonnet, Surrealism1176

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