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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive site dedicated to the English sonnet. Site includes numerous pages grouped by country of origin and historic period. Also included is literary criticism of various sonnets and advice on how to write a sonnet. Click on the...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Golden Treasury of Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in Eng Lang

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Electronic text of Thomas Palgrave's book, "The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language". There are several ways to find the poem that you want to study: by author, by title, by first line, and by...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson allows students read various sonnets and chart the basic characteristics of the poem, using their observations about traditional sonnet forms. After, students write original sonnets, using one of the poems they have analyzed...
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Sonnet Central

Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney

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

Alex: The Craft of Poetry: Structure of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a sonnnet grid, students write original Shakespearean sonnets and present them in digital slideshow format.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: John Keats the Poems of John Keats

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read the poems, epistles, sonnets, and fragments of John Keats. Includes a four-page introduction discussing Keats' life and career.
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bibliomania website from contains a chapter from "The Oxford Book of English Verse" that contains several poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poetry includes, "River-spirits," "A softer voice," "Bird-spirit," "Grief," "A Musical...