Research Catalog

Title

The nineteenth-century sonnet / Joseph Phelan.

Author

Phelan, Joseph, 1963-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Details

Description

vii, 192 pages; 23 cm

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.

Subjects

• English poetry
• 1800-1899
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Engels
• Sonnetten
• English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
• Sonnets, English > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 1403938040
• 9781403938046
• 9780230512627
• 0230512623

LCCN

• 2005051250
• 9781403938046

OCLC

• ocm60824252
• 60824252
• SCSB-1380880

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library