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". . . classic collections, modern examples, definitions of the various sonnet forms, essays & exercises for sonneteers."

An Italian Sonnet

http://www.lnstar.com/mall/james/italiansonnet.htm

By James DeFord.

Byzant.com: Viewless Wings

http://www.byzant.com/poetry/

A collection of poems and biographies of some great poets, with particular emphasis on the sonnet.

Coelia

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/coelia.html

A series of love sonnets by William Percy (1594), in undiluted Elizabethan English.

Delia

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/delia.html

A sonnet sequence by Samuel Daniel (not translated into modern English).

Diana

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/diana.html

A sonnet sequence by Henry Constable (not translated into modern English).

Early English Sonnets

http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/early.htm

Links to sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey and to definitions of some technical terms.

Golden Age Sonnets

http://ingber.spanish.sbc.edu/SonnetTexts/Sonnets.html

Translations of Spanish sonnets (with original Spanish texts) by such poets as Luis de Gongora, Lope de Vega, and Miguel de Cervantes.

John Donne - Holy Sonnets

http://cs1.mcm.edu/~rayb/holy_sonnets.htm

Nineteen sonnets on religious themes.

Michael Peach?s Site for Lovers of the English Son

http://www.michaelpeach.org/

The poet's own English sonnets and a selection from his favorite classic poets.

Personality Quiz - What Poetry Form Am I?

http://quiz.ravenblack.net/poeticform.pl?q=1&a=10

A sonnet that describes the "personality" of a sonnet. With html code for transferring the sonnet to your site and links to "personality quizzes" for other poetic forms.

Poetic Forms: The Sonnet

http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/sonnet.shtml

An article by Conrad Geller with examples by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Part of a series in Writing-World.com.

Rhyming Words

http://onlinebizplanner.com/rmenu202.htm

Sonnets by Stephen C. Rose.

Seckinger's Sonnets

http://www.davidseckinger.com

By David Seckinger, illustrated with line drawings.

Sonnet

http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/sonnet.html

Description and examples. Part of a course called "The Craft of Poetry" taught by Vince Gotera and Damon McLaughlin at the University of Northern Iowa.

Sonnet Central

http://www.sonnets.org/

"An archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, audio, and relevant web links."

Sonnets by Spenser

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/sonnets.html

A selection from various sources.

Sonnets for Free

http://www.poemsforfree.com/sonnpo.html

A collection by Nicholas Gordon that can be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.

Sonnets on Science

http://www.chaparraltree.com/scison

Five on scientific topics by Raphael Carter.

Sonnetto Poesia

http://sonnettopoesiahome.homestead.com/index.html

A quarterly sonnet e-zine, edited by Richard Vallance, publishing contemporary sonnets from Canada and other countries.

The Mediadrome - Words - Poetry: The Fixed Forms -

http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/words_articles/right_word_3_sonnet.htm

Description by John Stringer of the sonnet in its various forms, with examples of each type.

The Sonnet

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sonnet.html

A brief description and definition of the sonnet form(s).

The Sonnets to Orpheus

http://www.polyamory.org/~howard/Poetry/orpheus_index.html

55 sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Howard A. Landman.

Toru Dutt: Sonnet

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/dutt.html

Written in 1876 by an Indian woman raised in France. From Volume 2 of an anthology entitled, "Reading About the World."