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Write a note on Elizabethan sonnet &trace the contribution of different sonneteers of this period?

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Sonnet is a foreign importation in English literature.It is appeared in England as one of the distinct and immediate effects of the Renaissance. Sir Thomas Wyatt is the pioneer of sonnet writing in England. Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey popularized it in the carly 16th century. Later on, it was widely used by Edmund Spenser, Sic Philip Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton. William Shakespeare and afterwards John Milton. Their contribution in the development of the English sonnet is immeasurable.

The term "Sonnet" is derived from the Italian word, Sonnetto which means "Suono". We know that suono means a sound or a song. In this sense, "Sonnetto" means a little sound. So the sonnet is a very short lynie poem of fourteen iambic pentametre lines. It is a verse form consisting of fourteen lines English iambic pentametre and a complicated thyme scheme. Sonnet was originated in Italy in the early thirteenth century, it was first written in about 1230 or 1240 by a Sicilian lawyer, Lentino. It attained in taly the pinnacle of perfection in the masser hands of Petrarch, Cavalcanti and dante. Among them, Dante was the first great poct to use it

Widely. For this reason, he is often

considered to be the father of sonnet.

We know that Petrarch was an Italian poet. He was the first poet to write sonnets on the subject of his unrequited love for laura. He was followed by other Italian poets of his age. The sonnet was first introduced into English literature by Surrey and Wyatt. Wyatt was a young courtier of the court of Henry- VIII. He visited Italy in 1527 and was deeply influenced by Petrarch. He wrote thirty one sonnets in the strictly Petrarchan form.

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