Sonnets and Sonneteers

wrote Astrophil and Stella

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

wrote Amoretti for his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

developed the English sonnet and wrote many plays

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

wrote Holy Sonnets and was obsessed with his own death

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

wrote a pastoral poem called Arcadia as well as The Defense of Poesy

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

experienced anti-Catholicism, wrote "The Flea," and became the Dean of St. Paul's

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

died from a battle wound he got while fighting against the Spanish

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

earned degrees from Cambridge, lived in Ireland for a while, and was the "poet's poet"

• Edmund Spenser

• Sir Philip Sidney

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

What type of sonnet has this rhyme scheme?

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

• Italian

• English

• Spenserian

What type of sonnet has this rhyme scheme?

ABBAABBACDECDE

• Italian

• English

• Spenserian