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The Sonnet Stephen Regan (Professor of English, Durham University)

The Sonnet By Stephen Regan (Professor of English, Durham University)

The Sonnet by Stephen Regan (Professor of English, Durham University)

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Provides a study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry - the sonnet. This book combines a historical overview of the sonnet with detailed analysis to show how the sonnet has achieved its special status and popularity among poets in Britain, Ireland, and America.

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The Sonnet by Stephen Regan (Professor of English, Durham University)

The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, and still used today by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the development of the sonnet from its origins in medieval Italy to its widespread acceptance in modern Britain, Ireland and America. It shows how the sonnet emerges from the aristocratic courtly centres of Renaissance Europe and gradually becomes the chosen form of radical political poets such as Milton. The book draws on detailed critical analysis of some of the best-known sonnets written in English to explain how the sonnet functions as a poetic form, and it argues that the flexibility and versatility of the sonnet have given it a special place in literary history and tradition.

About Stephen Regan (Professor of English, Durham University)

Stephen Regan is Professor of English at Durham University, where he is also Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. He served as Head of Department at Durham from 2008 to 2011, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University from 2011 to 2012. His publications include Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2004) and an edition of Esther Waters by the Irish novelist, George Moore (Oxford University Press, 2012). His essays on modern poetry have appeared in The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (2008), and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012). He is co-editor, with Andrew Motion, of the Penguin Book of Elegy.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The Renaissance; 2. Shakespeare; 3. Milton; 4. The Romantic Revival of the Sonnet; 5. Victorian Sonnet Sequences; 6. The Irish Sonnet; 7. The American Sonnet; 8. The Modern Sonnet; Conclusion

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NPB9780192893079
9780192893079
0192893076
The Sonnet by Stephen Regan (Professor of English, Durham University)
Stephen Regan (Professor of English, Durham University)
New
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2019-09-24
192
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