<P> The first known sonnets in English , written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , used the Italian , Petrarchan form , as did sonnets by later English poets , including John Milton , Thomas Gray , William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Early twentieth - century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote mostly Petrarchan sonnets . </P>
<P> The first known sonnets in English , written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , used the Italian , Petrarchan form , as did sonnets by later English poets , including John Milton , Thomas Gray , William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Early twentieth - century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote mostly Petrarchan sonnets . </P>
who used sonnet for the first time in england
who used sonnet for the first time in england
Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey
Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey