The Cambridge companion to the sonnet /

"Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and...

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Other Authors: Cousins, A. D., 1950-, Howarth, Peter, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:Cambridge companions to topics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / A.D. Cousins and Peter Howarth
  • 1. Contemporary poets and the sonnet: a trialogue / Paul Muldoon, Meg Tyler, and Jeff Hilson, edited by Peter Howarth
  • 2. The sonnet and the lyric mode / Heather Dubrow
  • 3. The sonnet, subjectivity, and gender / Diana E. Henderson
  • 4. The English sonnet in manuscript, print and mass media / Arthur F. Marotti and Marcelle Freiman
  • 5. European beginnings and transmissions: Dante, Petrarch, and the sonnet sequence / William J. Kennedy
  • 6. Desire, discontent, parody: the love sonnet in early modern England / Catherine Bates
  • 7. Shakespeare's sonnets / A.D. Cousins
  • 8. Sacred desire, forms of belief: the religious sonnet in early modern Britain / Helen Wilcox
  • 9. Survival and change: the sonnet from Milton to the Romantics / R.S. White
  • 10. The Romantic sonnet / Michael O'Neill
  • 11. The Victorian sonnet / Matthew Campbell
  • 12. The modern sonnet / Peter Howarth
  • 13. The contemporary sonnet / Stephen Burt.