Edmund Spenser wrote a total of 89 sonnets, which were part of his larger work "Amoretti" published in 1595.
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'
Virgil intended to write an epic poem 12 books long, which became known as the "Aeneid." It follows the legendary hero Aeneas as he journeys from Troy to Italy and chronicles the founding of Rome.
Renaissance writers in 1485-1625 favored sonnets, which were 14-line poems typically expressing themes of love and beauty. They also favored pastoral poetry, which idealized rural life and the natural world. Additionally, the era saw an increased interest in epic poetry, with works such as Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene."
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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This is akin to asking whether the Pope is Catholic. Shakespeare is the second-most famous writer of sonnets in the world (after Petrarch).
His sonnets focused on worldly interests of romance and nature.