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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 14 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", and the comic poignance 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.

Book details

• Full title: Sonnets
• Subtitle: From Dante to the Present
• Author: John Hollander
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780375411779
• ISBN: 0375411771
• ID: 11406206
• Publisher: Random House
• Weight: 449 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. March 2001

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