| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One The Origin of the Sonnet and Its Form | 第10-25页 |
| Chapter Two Themes and Variations in the Sonnet of Renaissance England | 第25-45页 |
| Chapter Three The Renaissance Poetics and the Sonnet | 第45-52页 |
| ·Rime and Reason | 第45-49页 |
| ·Aristotle vs. Plato | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Four The Sonnet from the Perspectives of Twentieth-Century Literary Theories | 第52-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-62页 |
| Works Cited | 第62-66页 |