What Gift Is This #1

Documentation Footnotes

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_The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics_, Pg 1169: Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) brought the sonnet to England, but used the Italian form of the style for nearly all of his sonnets. It was Henry Howard, Earl of Surry (1517-1547), that modified the Form and created what is now called the English Sonnet.

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_Complete Anachronist #67: Ars Poetica Societatis_, Pg 45

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_Princeton_, Pg 1167

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_Princeton_, Pg 548

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_Princeton_, Pg 1168

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_Immortal_, Pg 67

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_Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queene_, Pg 25-33 and 1072: These sonnets were written in praise of those in high position when his poem _The Faerie Queene_ was in the process of being printed and bound.

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_Wyatt_, Pg 88: Rebholtz suggests that Wyatt wrote this poem while imprisoned in 1541 for treason, and that the poem describes his state while imprisoned.

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_Princeton_, Pg 1168: Preminger states that, though this was true in the general case, there are many examples of poets who deviated from this progression.

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_Princeton_, Pg 232: Petrarchan conceits deal with physical qualities or experiences. These conceits were widely used by the Elizabethan Sonneteers.