Sonnet

It thrusts itself, rather importunately, into _Lycidas_ (1636), and reappears in the Sonnet to Cromwell (_Sonnet_ xvii., 1652), before it is dogmatically expounded in the pamphlet, _Considerations touching means to remove Hirelings out of the Church_ (1659).

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

Hell, that part of my manifesto is stated about as clearly as it could be in Sonnet VII of my Sonnets For Orpheus, in the whole "I sing for death ..." proclamation.

Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Hell, that part of my manifesto is stated about as clearly as it could be in Sonnet VII of my Sonnets For Orpheus, in the whole "I sing for death ..." proclamation.

More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

The Sonnet is designed, as it is peculiarly fitted, for the development of a single thought, emotion, or picture.

The Poems of Henry Timrod. 1872

A line in Sonnet 154, “Love’s fire heats water,” apparently refers to an STD causing burning urination.

Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005

Then there is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who wrote that "A Sonnet is a moment's monument, --/Memorial from the Soul's eternity/To one dead deathless hour."

How It Gives Life to Thee 2008

The Sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines, and is perhaps the most difficult kind of poem to write.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

Mr. Fisher took up architecture and practiced this profession for seventeen years, but although he still retains connection with it in a consulting capacity, he has given up its active practice to be the publisher and editor of a small magazine called The Sonnet, which he founded.

Biographical Notes. Jessie B 1922

In general literature the idea underlying the Sonnet is the adaptation of the matter to the outer form, as if a poet's thought were poured into special moulds.

Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

This may be wrong, but something of the kind seems necessary to explain why Butler should have called the Sonnet an Academic

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868