sonneteer

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The conceit of the sonneteer is that the fever is an enemy luxuriously lodged in the lovely person of its victim, and there insidiously plotting against her life TRISSOTIN.

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  • Petrarch the sonneteer : it is true that some of his Canzoni are not less esteemed, but not more; who ever dreams of his Latin Africa Footnote 1: Of these there is one ranked with the others for his SONNETS, and two for compositions which belong to no class at all? —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6)
  • There is little evidence of the worst fault of the sonneteer: the forced shaping and pruning of words and thoughts to fit the rigidity of the sonnet form. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • "Bird-Understander" I wanted to say not, as an Elizabethan courtly sonneteer might have said, —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • The conceit of the sonneteer is that the fever is an enemy luxuriously lodged in the lovely person of its victim, and there insidiously plotting against her life TRISSOTIN. —  Classic French Course in English
  • Observe the small buttons, the little boots, the laces, the slashes about his clothes, and, above all, the posture he is drawn in (which, to be sure, was his own choosing), you see he sits with one hand on a desk writing and looking, as it were, another way, like an easy writer, or a sonneteer. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
 

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/sɑnɛˈtir/
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