Art of the Sonnet

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-674-06180-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, “a moment’s monument.” From the Renaissance to the present, the sonnet has given poets a superb vehicle for private contemplation, introspection, and the expression of passionate feelings and thoughts. The Art of the Sonnet collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems. The commentaries by Stephanie Burt and David Mikics offer new perspectives and insights, and, taken together, demonstrate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to some of the most-celebrated sonnets in English as well as less-well-known gems by nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets. Also included is a general introductory essay, in which the authors examine the sonnet form and its long and fascinating history, from its origin in medieval Sicily to its English appropriation in the sixteenth century to sonnet writing today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking parts of the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burt, Stephanie

Mikics, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Mikics, David
David Mikics is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston.

Burt, Stephanie
Stephanie Burt is the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including <i>Super Gay Poems</i> and <i>Don’t Read Poetry.</i> A past judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she served as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes regularly for the <i>New York Times Book Review,</i> the <i>New Yorker, London Review of Books,</i> the <i>New York Review of Books, Raritan,</i> and other publications. She is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University.