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- noun Plural form of
sonneteer .
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Examples
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Calling all Scrabble fans and skilled sonneteers: Local renaissance woman Holly Bass hosts this monthly open-mic night for sharing your literary creations.
Free and Easy: Shakespeare and Scandinavia Alex Baldinger 2011
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Calling all Scrabble fans and skilled sonneteers: Local renaissance woman Holly Bass hosts this monthly open-mic night for sharing your literary creations. 8 p.m. at Artisphere.
Getting Up Guide: John Hughes and mimosas; Wroteo Alex Baldinger 2011
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LH: As one of our great sonneteers, I wanted to ask you about contemporary approaches to the form.
Marilyn Hacker on Gwendolyn Brooks, plus 5 Questions Lemon Hound 2008
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LH: As one of our great sonneteers, I wanted to ask you about contemporary approaches to the form.
Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and song writers ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from Renaissance sonneteers to the Romantics, and from Verlaine and Rimbaud to modern rock lyricists.
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Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and song writers ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from Renaissance sonneteers to the Romantics, and from Verlaine and Rimbaud to modern rock lyricists.
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Among the Poetry are some pretty verses by Lord Porchester; but it is well that metrical pieces do not predominate, for some of the writers are sadly unmusical sonneteers.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Various
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Many of the Sonnets contain reminiscences of the French sonneteers of the sixteenth century, and it is thought that in some cases Shakespeare shows direct acquaintance with Ronsard.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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And even this last caveat is sometimes disregarded by careful sonneteers.
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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Barnes was well acquainted with the work of contemporary French sonneteers, to whom he is largely indebted, and he borrows his title, apparently, from a
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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