Milton's Sonnets #250547

During this time he also wrote half a dozen Italian sonnets. Both of these groups I shall briefly consider, as well as the circumstances under which some of them were written, so far as it is necessary for a correct understanding of them, and perhaps may dwell some what upon the merits and limitations of the form in which he wrote. In what I say of the Sonnet in gen eral, I shall invoke the aid of the poets themselves who have written such verse.