The art of the sonnet
Burt, Stephen2010
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Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest, a mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes. This collection represents highlights in the history of the sonnet.
Main title:
The art of the sonnet / by Stephen Burt and David Mikics
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Imprint:
Cambridge Massachusetts Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2010
Collation:
451 pages
Contents:
How to use these sonnets - 'Whoso list to hunt' / Thomas Wyatt (1557) - 'Norfolk sprang thee' / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1557) - 'That self same tongue' / George Gascoigne (1573) - Astrophel and Stella 45 / Sir Philip Sidney (written 1582) - Ruines of Rome 3 / Edmund Spencer, original Joachim Du Bellay (1591) - Delia / Samuel Daniel (1592) - Amoretti 78 / Edmund Spencer (1595) - Caelica 7 / Fulke Greville, Lord Broke (probably written 1590s) - Sonnet 2 / William Shakespeare (1609) - Sonnet 68 / William Shakespeare (1609) - Sonnett 116 (1609) / William Shakespeare - Phamphilia to Amphilanthus 46 / Lady Mary Wroth (1621) - 'At the round earth's imagined corners' / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633) - 'Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one' / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633) - 'Redemption' / George Herbert (1633) - 'Prayer (I)' / George Herbert (1633) - 'On the late massacre in Piedmont' / John Milton (1673) - Methought I saw my late espoused saint' / John Milton (1673) - Sappho and Phaon 24 / Mary Robinson (1796) - 'Huge vapour brood above the clifted shore / Charlotte Smith (1798) - 'London, 1802 / William Wordsworth (1802) - 'Surprise by Joy' / William Wordsworth (1815) - 'On seeing the Elgin marbles' / John Keats (1817) - 'Four seasons fill the measure of the year' / John Keats (1818) - 'Ozymandias' / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) - 'England in 1819' / Percy Bysshe Shelley (written 1819-1820) - 'Work without hope' / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (written) 1825 - 'Swordy well' / John Clare (probably written 1820s) 'Mysterious night' / Joseph Blanco White (written 1827) - 'To-morrow' / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, original by Lope De Vega (1833) - 'The fish, the man, and the spirit' / Leigh Hunt (1836) - 'The Columbine' / Jones Very (1839) - 'Written in Emerson's essays' / Matthew Arnold (written 1844) - Sonnets from the Portugese 28 / Elizabeth Barrett Browing (1850) - Sonnets, third series 6 / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (written before 1873) - 'Retreat' / Charles Baudelaire (translated by Rachel Hadas) - Modern love 50 / George Meredith (1862) - 'A dream' Charles / Tennyson Turner (1864) - 'I know not why, but all this weary day / Henry Timrod (1867) - 'Renouncement' / Alice Meynell (written 1869) - Brother and Sister 7 and 8 / George Eliot (written before 1870) - 'For a Venetian pastoral' / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870) - 'A superscription' / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870) - 'The cross of snow' / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (written 1879) - Later life 17 / Christina Rossetti (1881) - 'The new Colossus' / Emma Lazarus (1883) - 'As kingfishers catch fire' / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1883) - 'Thou art indeed just' / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1889) - 'Mt. Lykaion' / Trumbull Stickney (1905) - 'Nests in Elms' / Michael Field (1908) - 'Archaic Torso of Apollo' / Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Edward Snow) (1908) - 'A church romance' / Thomas Hardy (1909) - 'Mowing' / Robert Frost - 'Bluebeard' / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917) - 'Firelight' / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1921) - 'America' / Claude McKay (1921) - 'Self-portrait' / Elinor Wylie (1922) - 'On Somme' / Ivor Gurney (written 1922) - 'Nomad exquisite' / Wallace Stevens (1923) - 'Leda and the swan' / William Butler Yeats (1924) - 'To Emily Dickinson' / Hart Crane (written 1926) - 'At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem' / Countee Cullen (1927) - 'The castle of thorns' / Yvor Winters (1930) - 'No swan so fine' / Marianne Moore (1932) - 'Single Sonnet' / Louise Bogan (1937) - In time of war 27 / W. H. Auden (1938) - 'Never again would birds' song be the same' / Robert Frost (1948) - 'Epic' / Patrick Kavanagh (951) - 'The illiterate' / William Meredith (1958) - 'Marsyas' / James Merrill (1959) - The sonnets 44 / Ted Berrigan (1964) ... and more
ISBN:
9780674048140 (hardback)
Dewey class:
821.0420 ART
Local class:
821.0420
Language:
English
BRN:
118212
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