Author: Samuel Waddington
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Category : Sonnet
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Samuel Waddington
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Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Stephen Burt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674048140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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"Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, "a moment's monument." From the Renaissance to the present, the sonnet has given poets a superb vehicle for private contemplation, introspection, and the expression of passionate feelings and thoughts." "The Art of the Sonnet collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems. The commentaries by Stephen Burt and David Mikics offer new perspectives and insights, and, taken together, demonstrate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to some of the most-celebrated sonnets in English as well as less-well-known gems by nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets. Also included is a general introductory essay, in which the authors examine the sonnet form and its long and fascinating history, from its origin in medieval Sicily to its English appropriation in the sixteenth century to sonnet writing today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking parts of the world." --Book Jacket.

Author: Samuel Waddington
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Category : Sonnets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Samuel Waddington
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Category : Sonnets
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Lynn Cullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476702918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.

Author: John Holmes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351946331
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke, addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence, the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.

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Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Languages : en
Pages : 620

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