Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-109) and index
The invention of the sonnet -- Dante Alighieri -- Francis Petrarch -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Anne Locke -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Samuel Daniel -- Edmund Spenser -- Michael Drayton -- William Shakespeare -- John Donne -- George Herbert -- Lady Mary Wroth -- William Drummond of Hawthornden -- John Milton -- The sonnet and its criticism.
