There are two main types of sonnets: Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnets and Shakespearean (or English) sonnets. Petrarchan sonnets consist of an octave followed by a sestet, while Shakespearean sonnets consist of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet.
38 plays, 154 sonnets
Tottle's Miscellany, published in 1557, contained 271 sonnets.
Plays and Sonnets.
William Wordsworth wrote 523 sonnets in his lifetime.
Many authors have and do write sonnets, they do not come from a single source.
There are 44 Glasgow Sonnets by Edwin Morgan.
The volume Shakespeare's Sonnets [1609] contains 154 sonnets, so the usual answer to this question is 154. There are a few 'sonnets' embedded in the plays (particularly in Romeo and Juliet); but people don't normally include these among Shakespeare's Sonnets (for a number of reasons).
Shakespearean sonnets - sonnets by Shakespeare
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Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes has 66 pages.
We don't know how many sonnets were written by Shakespeare, because we do not know how many of these were unpublished and subsequently became lost.In his published works, the First Quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets contains 154 such poems. Other sonnets appear within his published plays and in the collection of poems entitled The Passionate Pilgrime.There are numerous theories as to the identity of the dark lady of the Sonnets. None are proven. However, the only realistic candidate to date is Emilia Bassano (as brought out in The Biography in Shakespeare's Sonnets - see related link below).