Traces the development of the sonnet from its invention in the early Italian Renaissance to the time of John Milton, showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express lyrically the nature of the desiring self.

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Poets examined include: Petrarch, Dante, Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton