The Sonnet
Its Characteristics and History
William Sharp
This essay formed the introduction to Sharp's Sonnets of This Century (1887). In order to make it more readable online, I have divided the essay into parts as follows.
- Introduction, mention of previous sonnet anthologies, general remarks
- Early history of the sonnet
- Sonnet structure
- Early English sonnets, up to Shakespeare
- (Remainder of essay is under construction)