Assertion: sonnet | /r/HasProperty | the first
Facets:
value: in a series of 154 sonnets
type: OTHER
value: according to vendler
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: According to Vendler, the sonnet is the first to employ Shakespeare's grand microcosmic scale, more suited to philosophy than a sonnet about love.
text: Sonnet 1 is the first in a series of 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe.
text: Sonnet 33 is the first to introduce the idealizing metaphor of the young man as the sun.
text: The “howers,” with which Sonnet 5, the first of a pair of sonnets, opens are the classical ‘Hours,’ the Horae or ‘Ωραι, daughters of Zeus and Themis, who presided over the seasons –
text: Because sonnet 133 is the first to directly refer to the "friend", there is some controversy concerning the subject of that word.
text: It is the body language of Sonnet 78 (the first in the series) 79, 80 and 84 that serves to convert the topic of letters into that of eroticism.