Give two example of elizabethan Sonnet sequence.
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It elaborates regarding series of English sonnets written by many distinctive practitioners in Elizabethan era for example William Shakespeare, Philip Sydney and Edmund Spenser.
Shakespeare’s sonnet sequences has nearly 154 sonnets.
Prime sonnet of Shakespeare collection is series entitled Amoretti and Sydney's most renowned sonnet series entitled Astrophil and Stella.
English sonnet sequence became phenomenon around 15:80 and remained a major literary and cultural influence till around 16:10.
Many credit Sydney's Astrophil and Stella as first true sequence.
In the year 1619 Drayton completes his final revision of famous sequence Idea which historically demarcated the end of phenomenon.
Impact of the sonnet and sequence was seen everywhere now.
John Donne tells that only cowards couldn't write sonnets.
Elizabethan sonnet sequence refers to those englis sonnets that were written by prominent authors and potes mainly in the Elizabethan era.
Poets and authors like sir Philip Sidney, William shakespeare and many more have contributed largely to the Elizabethan literature. some exampes are: Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella was a first true sequence.
Another famouse sequence is Idea by Drayton.