He learned what a sonnet was, and the difference between a Petrarchan one and a Shakespearean one. But as he graduated and headed to a fellowship at Stanford, he also got a parallel education in ...

But Shakespeare’s sonnets are not the only kind. Other sonnet forms include the Petrarchan sonnet, which uses a slightly different rhyme scheme, though still uses 14 lines. Modern sonnets follow ...

“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the “non-literary” analogs for form in certain kinds of contemporary poetry, Jonathan ...