Sir Philip Sidney's 'Astrophil and Stella' is significant in the sonnet tradition for being the first:
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Published in 1591, 'Astrophil and Stella' was the first fully developed English sonnet sequence. It sparked the 'sonnet mania' of the 1590s, where almost every major poet attempted a cycle.
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