Definition of Sonneteers

1. Noun. (plural of sonneteer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sonneteers

1. sonneteer [n] - See also: sonneteer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonneteers

sonifier
sonify
sonkyo
sonkyos
sonless
sonlike
sonly
sonne
sonnes
sonnet
sonneted
sonneteer
sonneteered
sonneteering
sonneteerings
sonneteers (current term)
sonneter
sonneters
sonneting
sonnetist
sonnetists
sonnetize
sonnetized
sonnetizes
sonnetizing
sonnetlike
sonnets
sonnetted
sonnetting
sonnies

Literary usage of Sonneteers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... Warner — The sonneteers of 1592-96 — Constable — The satirists THE gossiping and personal side of literary history has always attracted rather excessive ..."

2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"Among such accidental or occasional sonneteers we include not Shakespeare merely, but Spenser, in his Amoretti of 1595, Drayton in his Idea's Mirror of 1594 ..."

3. The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) by Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen (1903)
"... was born that year; Ben Jonson and Donne were then six years old ; Marlowe and Shakespeare were boys of fifteen. § 2. Sidney and the sonneteers. ..."

4. The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) by Thomas Seccombe (1903)
"... was born that year; Ben Jonson and Donne were then six years old ; Marlowe and Shakespeare were boys of fifteen. § 2. Sidney and the sonneteers. ..."

5. Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley by William Minto (1885)
"CHAPTER V. ELIZABETHAN sonneteers. THE last ten or fifteen years of the sixteenth century was a period of amazing poetic activity : there is nothing like it ..."

6. Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley by William Minto (1891)
"CHAPTER V. ELIZABETHAN sonneteers. THE last ten or fifteen years of the sixteenth century was a period of amazing poetic activity: there is nothing like it ..."

7. Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley by William Minto (1891)
"CHAPTER V. ELIZABETHAN sonneteers. THE last ten or fifteen years of the sixteenth century was a period of amazing poetic activity: there is nothing like it ..."

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