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Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote?
SOnnet 14
sonnet style named after one of its greatest practitioners,
Petrarchan Sonnet
It is a ______-line poem that is divided into two stanzas
fourteen
abab-cdcd-efef-gg, usually 14 lines, iambic pentameter
Shakespearean Sonnet
aba-bcb-cdc-ded-ee
Often has a rhyming couplet at the end
Terza Rima Sonnet
abab-bcbc-cdcd-ee
Spenserian Sonnet
The _____(first eight lines) is followed by the _____
(final six lines)
octave or octet, sestet
rhyme scheme for the octave
abba-abba
(1798-1832)
The Romantic Age of English Literature
a growing interest in scenery, especially its more untamed and
disorderly manifestations
an association of human moods with the “moods” of Nature
nature
emphasis on the need for spontaneity in thought and action
and in the expression of though
Spontaneity and Natural Genius
emerged as a person endowed with a special kind of faculty
which set him apart from his fellow men
Poet-prophet