Romantic sonnet text in the English culture: towards the problem of the author’s code explication

The article focuses on the specific features of the English sonnets written in the first half of the 19th century, the influence of aesthetic and cultural preferences of the time (European Romanticism) on the sonnet structure which resulted in the formation of “the Romantic sonnet text” as a unique phenomenon. Defined is the notion of the “author’s code” and revealed the main structural and semantic tendencies of the sonnet.