Other
Goucher College: English 211: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion"
This is a discription and literary analysis of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, a love poem composed of 89 sonnets, and "Epithalamion," a wedding song composed of 24 complex 18-line stanzas.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This site provides several selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese."
Emory University
Rupert Brooke, 1887 1915
This biographical note about the World War I poet Rupert Brooke also provides links to full texts of prewar and wartime poems: "A Channel Passage," "The Fish," "Heaven," Helen and Menelaus," and "The War Sonnets."
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Teaching Modules
Thirty-two lessons created by teachers in conjunction with Folger Library's National Teacher Corps. These lessons cover the Shakespeare plays most often covered in high school and emphasize close reading and analysis. Some of these...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Poetry
Discover close readings, critical interpretations, and personal responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, the poetry of John Donne, and more.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Putting Romeo and Juliet in Context: A Summary of Sources
This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for Romeo and Juliet - from young love in Shakespeare's day to sonnets and sleeping potions, and from Brooke's 1562 poem on Romeus and Juliet to a 21st-century...
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Sir Thomas Wyatt
This resource reveals that Sir Thomas Wyatt was a pioneer in bringing to English poetry the new forms of the Italian Renaissance, especially the Petrarchan sonnet. Related resources and links.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 1834)
Read sonnets by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Work without hope," and "One a Discovery Made Too Late." Page links to an introductory essay.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: William Blake (1757 1827)
This site provides a sonnet called "To an Evening Star" by William Blake.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Sonnet
An image of "The Sonnet", created by William Mulready in 1839 (Oil on canvas, 36 x 31 cm).
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
What do you know about Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet?" Explore this informative resource filled with links to lesson plans and activities.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Louise Labe
This site from Bibliomania contains the full text to three sonnets and an elegie in modern French, written by Louise Labe, known for her book of sonnets. A great site on the subject, but a translation is not provided.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Letters: Poe to Joseph B. Boyd
This letter, written December 25, 1839, contains the text to Poe's poem, "Silence--A Sonnet."
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Poems: Silence
Edgar Allan Poe's "Silence" (later titled Sonnet--To Silence") can be accessed from this archive.
Other
So You wanna.com: So You Wanna Learn About Poetic Form?
Discusses poetic form and the basic unit of form, the stanza. Also defines many related terms including couplet, triplet (tercets), quatrain, sesten (sestina), rhyme royal, ottava rima, Spenserian stanza, sonnet, and villanelle.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Sonnet With a Caricature
An image of "Sonnet with a Caricature", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, c. 1510 (Pen and brown ink, 283 x 200 mm).
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: The Romantic Era
This personal site provides a description of the era, with an extensive list of links to authors of the time.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
This site provides a illustration of Henry Howard as well as links to several of his famous works. Three of the pieces; The Soote Season, "Love that doth reign and live within my thought......," and "Set me whereas the sun doth parch the...
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: "Coriolanus"
The entire text of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes with a summary introduction of the play. With links to other Shakespearean plays, sonnets, biographies, poems, and more.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Bringing the "New Colossus" to America
This lesson plan provides suggestions for augmenting a study of The Statue of Liberty. Includes information on the Emma Lazarus sonnet, "The New Colossus," (which was written about the statue) and the attitudes towards immigration during...
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online
A wealth of information and analysis of Shakespeare's plays, background, themes, and other topics of interest to those students of Shakespeare. The site also offers the complete texts of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, quotations...
Luminarium
Luminarium: The Works of Milton
This site contains links to Milton's poems, sonnets, and prose, as well as complete text to his epic poems "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Christopher Marlowe
This lesson focuses on Christoper Marlowe and his works including his famous sonnet "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love." This poem and "A Nymph's Reply" are provided in both text from audio forms. Links to Marlowe's biography and a...
Other popular searches
- Shakespeare Sonnets
- Writing Sonnets
- Sonnet 130
- English Sonnets
- Italian Sonnets
- Sonnet 18
- Petrarch Sonnet
- John Milton Sonnet 19
- Shakespearean Sonnets
- Petrarchan Sonnet
- Analyzing Sonnets
- Shakespeares Sonnets