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The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet
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.
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The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet
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.
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The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

by J. Phelan
The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

by J. Phelan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403938046
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 12/05/2005
Edition description: 2005
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

JOSEPH PHELAN is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the editor of Clough: Selected Poems (1995) and the author of a number of articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction 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 Notes Bibliography Index
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