The Elizabethan Love Sonnet

allegorical allegory Amoretti analogies appears Astrophel and Stella beauty C. S. Lewis conceit contemporary contrast conventional couplet course courtly love courtship Cupid decasyllables desire diction doth Elizabethan Elizabethan sonnet emotional English sonnet experience expression eyes Faerie Queene flowers Friend hath heart Hero and Leander imagery imagination immortalization individual Italian kind king lady lady's last line last sonnet literary loue Love's lover lyric marriage ment metaphor metre mind Mistress moral Muse nature octave Ovid pattern Petrarch's Petrarchan Petrarchan sonnet phenomenal world phrase poem Poet Poet's poetic poetry praise qualities quatrain Renaissance rendering rhyme rhyme-scheme Rime romance Rome rose sense sensual sestet Shakespeare's sonnets Sidney Sidney's sixteenth century sonnet sequence sonnet-form soul Spenser spirit stress suggested Surrey Surrey's sweet symbol thee theme things thou thought Time's tion tradition treatment true truth verse verse-form virtue vision weeds words writing Wyatt