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 | | The rules of the Italian sonnet were established by Guittone d'Arezzo (1235-1294), who wrote almost 300 sonnets. |
 | | The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
 | | With the advent of free verse, the sonnet came to be seen as somewhat old-fashioned and fell out of use for a time. |
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