"Italian sonnet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Academie der Schnen Redeknste, he contributed his Ariadne, and an essay on Dante. The kindred genius of Brger favourably influenced his own mind and tastes, and moved him to make the first known attempt to naturalize the Italian sonnet in Germany. ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black
... affectations which had been their established subject. But in this, as in everything else where art was concerned, he was as much a conservative as a revolutionary. And so his scholarly interest in the Italian sonnet, and, we may be sure, his consummate {135} critical judgment, made him set aside the various sonnet forms adopted by Shakspeare, Spenser and other famous English poets, and follow the original model of Petrarch more strictly than it had been followed by any English poet of importance ...
— Milton • John Bailey |
