The Representation Of Love In The Elizabethan Sonnet

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Nottingham, course: Early Modern Love, language: English, abstract: Love has always been a recurring popular theme in literature because it raises a lot of intriguing questions. In this short essay, I want to explore the relationship between love and its presentation within one specific literary genre - the Elizabethan sonnet. By way of introduction, I will outline the nature of love and some sonnetary characteristics. I will then bring both concepts together to identify common features. Finally, the theme of love in one selected sonnet will be explored.

This study of the Elizabethan sonnet describes the development of the English sonnet, from the Petrarch-influenced poems of Wyatt and Surrey, to the great original sonnets of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. -- From publisher's description.

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