Covering an extensive range of poets, this is the first comprehensive study of the sonnet from the Renaissance to the present. It traces the development of the sonnet and explores why the sonnet is such an attractive form for writers and how it works in terms of shape and rhyme scheme.
Covering an extensive range of poets, this is the first comprehensive study of the sonnet from the Renaissance to the present. It traces the development of the sonnet and explores why the sonnet is such an attractive form for writers and how it works in terms of shape and rhyme scheme.
Stephen Regan is Professor of English at Durham University, where he is also Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. He served as Head of Department at Durham from 2008 to 2011, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University from 2011 to 2012. His publications include Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2004) and an edition of Esther Waters by the Irish novelist, George Moore (Oxford University Press, 2012). His essays on modern poetry have appeared in The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (2008), and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012). He is co-editor, with Andrew Motion, of the Penguin Book of Elegy.
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Introduction 1: The Renaissance Sonnet 2: The Romantic Sonnet 3: The Victorian Sonnet 4: The Irish Sonnet 5: The American Sonnet 6: The Modern Sonnet Epilogue: The Sonnet and its Travels Bibliography
Introduction 1: The Renaissance Sonnet 2: The Romantic Sonnet 3: The Victorian Sonnet 4: The Irish Sonnet 5: The American Sonnet 6: The Modern Sonnet Epilogue: The Sonnet and its Travels Bibliography
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