Sonnets: From Dante to the Present (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0375411771 ISBN 13: 9780375411779

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 2001

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A pocket anthology of sonnets includes Milton's "On His Blindness," :Leda and the Swan" by Yeats, Frost's "The Oven Bird," and other works by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Dante, Petrarch, Wordsworth, Keats, and modern practitioners such as Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and Elizabeth Bishop. 12,500 first printing.

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"A sonnet is a moment's monument," said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets.
The sonnets in this collection--whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair, or celebration--reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight, and experience can be concentrated into a mere fourteen lines.
Here are classics such as Milton's "On His Blindness," Yeats's "Leda and the Swan," and Frost's "The Oven Bird," juxtaposed with the mischievous wit of Rupert Brooke's "Sonnet Reversed," the lyric defiance of Mona Van Duyn's "Caring for Surfaces," and the comic poignancy of Philip Larkin's "To Failure." From the lovelorn laments of Dante and Petrarch to the artful heights of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, from the masterpieces of Wordsworth and Keats to the innovations of Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and James Merrill, the sonnet has proved both versatile and enduring.
This delightful anthology displays the incredible range and power of the verse form that has inspired poets across the centuries.

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• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375411771
• ISBN 13: 9780375411779
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Hollander John