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Goucher College: English 211: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti and "Epithalamion"

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides several selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese."
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Emory University

Rupert Brooke, 1887 1915

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Teaching Modules

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover close readings, critical interpretations, and personal responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, the poetry of John Donne, and more.
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British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: Putting Romeo and Juliet in Context: A Summary of Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Sir Thomas Wyatt

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of sonnets by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), the Elizabethan poet.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 1834)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read sonnets by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Work without hope," and "One a Discovery Made Too Late." Page links to an introductory essay.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: William Blake (1757 1827)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a sonnet called "To an Evening Star" by William Blake.
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Web Gallery of Art: The Sonnet

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Sonnet", created by William Mulready in 1839 (Oil on canvas, 36 x 31 cm).
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What do you know about Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet?" Explore this informative resource filled with links to lesson plans and activities.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Louise Labe

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Letters: Poe to Joseph B. Boyd

For Students 9th - 10th
This letter, written December 25, 1839, contains the text to Poe's poem, "Silence--A Sonnet."
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Poems: Silence

For Students 9th - 10th
Edgar Allan Poe's "Silence" (later titled Sonnet--To Silence") can be accessed from this archive.
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So You wanna.com: So You Wanna Learn About Poetic Form?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Web Gallery of Art: Sonnet With a Caricature

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Sonnet with a Caricature", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, c. 1510 (Pen and brown ink, 283 x 200 mm).
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: The Romantic Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides a description of the era, with an extensive list of links to authors of the time.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Absolute Shakespeare

Absolute Shakespeare: "Coriolanus"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Bringing the "New Colossus" to America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Luminarium

Luminarium: The Works of Milton

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Christopher Marlowe

For Students 9th - 10th
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...

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