... under the influence of different writers such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, and Spenser who used various techniques to make their works more attractive and readable. The sonnet is among the most limited poetic forms with its long list of requirements that can be discouraging. Nevertheless, flexibility and originality are acceptable, as it has been proved by several ... Elizabethan period (Lathrop 463). His inventions also include the use of a blank verse, rhyming meter, and division into quatrains, which made a significant contribution to English poetry. In h...

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