Screen LibraryThe nineteenth-century sonnet
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vii, 192 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1403938040 9781403938046 |
| Index Number: | I561 |
| CLC: | I561.072 |
| Call Number: | I561.072/P538 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index. The Wordsworthian sonnet revival : Poems in two volumes (1807) -- 'Transcripts of the private heart' : the sonnet and autobiography -- The political sonnet -- The devotional sonnet -- 'Illegal attachments' : the amatory sonnet sequence -- 'Thought's pure diamond' : the sonnet at the end of the century. What was the appeal of "the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground" to Romantic and Victorian poets? How did a form which had fallen into disuse in the early eighteenth century become a central and enduring part of nineteenth-century poetry? This study traces the history and development of the sonnet throughout the nineteenth century, examining the work of Wordsworth, Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, George Meredith, and a number of other key canonical and non-canonical writers. |