id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2311 Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia .html text/html 8003 1087 82 Shakespeare's sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming meter and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. With few exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets observe the stylistic form of the English sonnet—the rhyme scheme, the 14 lines, and the meter. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Sonnets [2 Volumes]. It was considered an anonymous work, and that is how it was first published, but in the late 1990s it began to be included in publications of the complete works as co-authored by Shakespeare.[71] Scholars who have supported this attribution include Jonathan Bate, Edward Capell, Eliot Slater,[72] Eric Sams,[73] Giorgio Melchiori,[74] Brian Vickers, and others. "First edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1609". E., A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Sonnets. ^ Burrow, Colin, William Shakespeare: Complete Sonnets and Poems, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. Categories: Sonnets by William Shakespeare ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2311.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2311.txt