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▪ I. sonneteer, n.|sɒnɪˈtɪə(r)|
Also 7 sonnettier, 8– sonnetteer.
[ad. It. sonettiere (f. sonetto sonnet), or f. sonnet n. + -eer1.]
A composer of sonnets; freq. in disparaging sense, a minor or indifferent poet.
α1665Dryden Indian Emp. Epil., He first thinks fit no Sonnettier advance His censure, farther than the Song or Dance. 1678― All for Love Pref. B ij b, Our little Sonnettiers who follow them, have too narrow Souls to judge of Poetry. 1753Gray's Inn Jrnl. (1756) I. 307, I..was a Witness to the Mischief which was occasioned by the polite Sonnetteers. 1791W. Gifford Baviad 45 And laugh to scorn th' eternal sonnetteer. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. v. §76 The English sonnetteers deal less in customary epithets. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. Introd. 42 In this matter I am neither a speculative reasoner, nor a sentimental sonnetteer.
β1677Wycherley Pl. Dealer i. i, The Noble Sonneteer wou'd trouble thee no more with his Madrigals. 1711Addison Spect. No. 160 ⁋1, I have heard many a little Sonneteer called a fine Genius. a1763Shenstone Economy iii. 109 How shall I sing the various ill that waits The careful sonneteer? 1835Edin. Rev. LX. 359 She is one of the best of the Italian sonneteers. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. i. 14 The elaborate sonnet put forth avowedly to a..company of answering sonneteers.
transf.1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 63 No cuckoos (that ever I should miss that rascally sonneteer!).
Hence sonneˈteeress. nonce-wd.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 657 Our songstresses,..sonneteeresses, or other ‘buildresses of the lofty rhyme’.
▪ II. sonneteer, v.|sɒnɪˈtɪə(r)|
Also sonnetteer.
[f. sonneteer n.]
1. refl. To make (oneself) a sonneteer.
1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 740 Shelley will henceforth rave only to the moon. Hunt will sonneteer himself.
2. trans. To celebrate in sonnets.
1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 617 A prima donna..sonnetteered by half the..idlers from Vesuvius to the Alps.
3. intr. To compose sonnets.
1841Lever C. O'Malley xcvi, The man who has been the very veriest flirt with women—sighing, serenading, sonneteering. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. i. 148 Rimers sonneteering in their sleep. 1899M. Hewlett Litt. Novels Italy, Master Cino & Coal ii, To sonneteer is very well, but a lover..must live. |