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The sonnets of Sidney and Shakespeare have suggested some of the ways in which the English sonneteers modified the form that they inherited – Sidney by introducing a tone of acidic complaint against women and Shakespeare by doing away with the octave/sestet division and replacing it by a structure of three quatrains and a couplet, thereby concentrating the conclusion of the sonnet into an effectively terse and pithy epigram. Donne confers an even more distinctive ‘English’ voice upon the Italian form.
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Garrett, J. (1986). The Early 17th Century: Donne and Herbert. In: British Poetry Since the Sixteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27937-1_4
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