The History of the Sonnet: Poet's Lives Timeline

11th Century

Arnaut Daniel: 1180-1200

Giacomo da Lentini: 1188-1240

12th Century

Guido Guinizelli: 1230-1276

Guittone d'Arezzo: 1235-1294

Guido Cavalcanti: 1255-1300

Dante Alghieri: 1265-1321

13th Century

Francesco Petrarch: 1304-1374

Geoffrey Chaucer: 1343-1400

16th Century

Sir Thomas Wyatt: 1503-1542

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: 1517-1547

Anne Locke: 1533-1595

George Gascoigne: 1539-1578

Edmund Spenser: 1552-1599

Sir Philip Sidney: 1554-1586