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Author Phelan, Joseph, 1963-

Title The nineteenth-century sonnet / Joseph Phelan
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 192 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index
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Subject Sonnets, English -- History and criticism
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry
Sonnets, English
Engels.
Sonnetten.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230512627
0230512623