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The English Renaissance saw the emergence of the English sonnet as it flourished through poets of such as Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wyatt. The word sonnet comes from the Italian word sonetto, meaning "a little song." The sonnet style of poetry has certain characteristics that contrast other styles of poetry.
The history of the sonnet style can be traced back to the 13th century. It was invented by poets who used this highly structured poetic style to explore their feelings about love and mortality. The sonnet was popularized by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374); the sonnet style grew so popular that centuries later, poets all over Europe were composing sonnets. The Italian sonnet that Petrarch used was probably invented by Giacomo da Lentini, head of the Sicilian School under Frederick II. The sonnet was introduced into England by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century. However, it was his contemporary, the Earl of Surrey who gave the poems the rhyme scheme, meter, and division into......

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