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The Sonnet
Stephen Regan
Price: £13.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-289307-9
Estimated publication date: August 2010
192 pages, 216x138 mm
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| Description | | - No other book offers a comprehensive and detailed study of the sonnet from The Renaissance to the present
- Covers both Shakespeare and Milton and contemporary writers such as Heaney, Walcott and Harrison
- The book combines a comprehensive overview of the history of poetry in English with informed theoretical discussion of poetic form and genre
- The book includes detailed analysis of individual poems
| The Sonnet
provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, and still used today by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison and Carol Ann Duffy.
This book traces the development of the sonnet from its origins in medieval Italy to its widespread acceptance in modern Britain, Ireland and America. It
shows how the sonnet emerges from the aristocratic courtly centres of Renaissance Europe and gradually becomes the chosen form of radical political poets such as Milton.
The book draws on detailed critical analysis of some of the best-known sonnets written in English to explain how the sonnet functions as a poetic form, and it argues that the flexibility and versatility of the sonnet have
given it a special place in literary history and tradition.
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Readership: Undergraduate students or A-Level students taking introductory poetry courses in the UK, US and elsewhere.
| Contents |
Introduction
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The Renaissance
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Shakespeare
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Milton
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The Romantic Revival of the Sonnet
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Victorian Sonnet Sequences
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The Irish Sonnet
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The American Sonnet
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The Modern Sonnet
Conclusion
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Stephen Regan, Lecturer in Modern Poetry, Royal Holloway, University of London
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