TY - BOOK AU - Spiller, Michael R.G. TI - The development of the sonnet: an introduction SN - 0415087414 U1 - 821.042 PY - 1992/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - English Literature KW - English Poetry-Early modern 1500-1700-History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographies and index N2 - Traces the development of the sonnet from its invention in the early Italian Renaissance to the time of John Milton, showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express lyrically the nature of the desiring self ER -