They certainly did, Elizabeth Barrett Browning for one.
Yes, women did write sonnets. Some notable female Sonnet writers include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, among others. These poets made significant contributions to the sonnet tradition.
He didn't write Petrarch's sonnets. He didn't write Edmund Spenser's sonnets. He didn't write Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets, and especially not "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
Many authors have and do write sonnets, they do not come from a single source.
One of his sonnets are 'thou my lovely boy fu'
One of his sonnets are 'thou my lovely boy fu'
He wrote 154 sonnets. That's a historical fact. The sonnets themselves do not deal with historical topics.
He wrote sonnets.
Probably with a quill pen on paper.
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His sonnets focused on worldly interests of romance and nature.
This is akin to asking whether the Pope is Catholic. Shakespeare is the second-most famous writer of sonnets in the world (after Petrarch).
Yes he did, he wrote Sonnets which are considered poetry.
A young man and a dark lady.