The first people to introduce Italian sonnets to Britain were the poet Thomas 6?1 White and Henry 6?1 Howard, Earl of Salisbury. Thomas White was the first person to introduce the sonnet as a poetic form to the British poetry world. Most of the themes of his sonnets were inspired by Petrarch's sonnets. His works with the Earl of Surrey, "One of the most important works in the history of English literature, because it was through them that the mainstream of European Renaissance poetry was able to pour into the British Isles." His famous poem "Farewell, Love" fully reflects the author Petrarch The writing style of sonnets had an important impact on the literary writing of the Renaissance period.