The Sonnet Through the Ages

The Introduction of the Sonnet into English

The Renaissance: Sir Philip Sidney

The Renaissance: William Shakespeare

The Renaissance: Edmund Spenser

The Seventeenth Century: Milton and the Metaphysical Poets

The Romantics: Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats

The Victorian Era: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Early Twentieth Century: W. B. Yeats and Wilfred Owen

The Modern Sonnet: Un-Rhymed and Un-Metrical

A Return to Form: Don Paterson and Wendy Cope