And it is by no means a despicable class of folks who perpetrate such stuff; the third rate sonneteer, a priori, is a gentleman, and this is more than can be said of some of our crude fiction writers who have never yielded themselves to the chastening discipline of verse composition, nor warmed their hearts, for a single instant, at the altar of some generous ideal."
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor
Soothern, an early but worthless sonneteer, c.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
Gombaud is chiefly remarkable as a sonneteer.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury