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  2. English Romantic sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2 ] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...

  3. The World Is Too Much With Us - Wikipedia

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    "The World Is Too Much With Us" is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).

  4. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    Later came William Sharp's anthology of American Sonnets (1889) [98] and Charles H. Crandall's Representative sonnets by American poets, with an essay on the sonnet, its nature and history (Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1890). The essay also surveyed the whole history of the sonnet, including English examples and European examples in translation, in ...

  5. Romantic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.

  6. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) 1807 Calais, August 15, 1802 1802, 15 August "Festivals have I seen that were not names:" Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) 1807 IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free 1802, August

  7. Lyrical Ballads - Wikipedia

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    Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. [2]

  8. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, in which, “while declaring his love for his mistress, he mocks the Petrarchan standard vocabulary of praise”, is an example that marks English independence from the conventions of Petrarch. [9] The English sonnet sequences “exemplify the Renaissance doctrine of creative imitation as defined by Petrarch”. [10]

  9. Category:Sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Sonnets" ... Elegiac Sonnets; England in 1819; English Romantic sonnets; H. Holy Sonnets; I. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; K. The ...