Meaning of sonnetteer | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of sonneteer.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“The humble Addreſs of your Majeſty’s Poet Laureat, and others your Catholick and Proteſtant diſſenting Rhymers, with the reſt of the Fraternity of Minor Poets, Inferiour Verſifiers and Sonnetteers of Your Majeſty’s Ancient Corporation of Parnaſſus.”

“A few sonnets he wrote—would he have been Italian had he not done so?—but they are of the dogmatic, self-anatomizing character common to that age, and closely copied by our own sonnetteers of Elizabethan times.”

“Unless you could say “a poor copy, but all that survives of this previously unrecorded 15th-century sonnetteer”, mostly you gave or threw away the lower ranks.”

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