Dowland’s Response to the Sonnet Tradition

John Dowland

Read By: Robert Pinsky

John Dowland’s “Fine Knacks for Ladies” helps us understand the playful, kidding, happily artificial or tongue-in-cheek aspect of the manners, exaggerations, and glittering surface of the sonnet conventions.

  • John Dowland
  • 17th Century
  • English
  • Music & Poetry
  • Lecture
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • The Art of Poetry