Details

Description

lxxvii, 448 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-372) and indexes.

Contents

Authors' names only: Francesco Petrarca -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Anne Locke -- George Gascoigne -- Giles Fletcher the Elder - Edmund Spenser -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh] -- Thomas Lodge -- George Chapman -- Henry Constable -- Mark Alexander Boyd -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael Drayton -- John Davies of Hereford -- Charles Best -- William Shakespeare -- James I -- Sir John Davies -- John Donne -- Ben Jonson -- Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- William Drummond of Hawthornden -- Lady Mary Wroth -- Robert Herrick -- George Herbert -- John Milton -- Charles Cotton -- Thomas Gray -- Thomas Warton, the Younger -- Anna Seward -- Charlotte Smith -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- Thomas Russell -- Elizabeth Cobbold --

William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Robert Southey -- Charles Lamb -- Joseph Blanco White -- Horace Smith -- Ebenezer Elliott -- Martha Hanson -- Mary F. Johnson -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Clare -- John Keats -- Hartley Coleridge -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Charles Tennyson Turner -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Robert Browning -- Jones Very -- Aubrey Thomas De Vere -- George Eliot -- James Russell Lowell -- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- Matthew Arnold -- Sydney Dobell -- George Meredith -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Christina Rossetti -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Thomas Hardy -- Robert Bridges -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Eugene Lee-Hamilton -- Alice Christina Meynell -- Emma Lazarus -- Oscar Wilde -- Francis Thompson -- W. B. Yeats -- Ernest Dowson -- Edward Arlington Robinson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Amy Lowell -- Trumbull Stickney -- Rupert Brooke -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Ezra Pound --

Elinor Wylie -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Robinson Jeffers -- Marianne Moore -- Edwin Muir -- T. S. Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Claude McKay -- Archibald MacLeish -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Wilfred Owen -- Dorothy Parker -- E. E. Cummings -- Jean Toomer -- Robert Graves -- Edmund Blunden -- Louise Bogan -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Yvor Winters -- Roy Campbell -- Countee Cullen -- Edwin Denby -- Merrill Moore -- Patrick Kavanagh -- Phyllis McGinley -- Elliott Coleman -- W. H. Auden -- Louis MacNeice -- Malcolm Lowry -- James Reeves -- Stephen Spender -- Elizabeth Bishop -- George Barker -- Robert Hayden -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- John Berryman -- Weldon Kees -- William Stafford -- Dylan Thomas -- Margaret Walker -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Charles Causley --

Robert Lowell -- William Meredith -- Amy Clampitt -- Howard Nemerov -- Hayden Carruth -- Marie Ponsot -- Richard Wilbur -- Philip Larkin -- Anthony Hecht -- Jane Cooper -- Donald Justice -- James K. Baxter -- James Merrill -- W. D. Snodgrass -- John Ashbery -- W. S. Merwin -- James Wright -- Donald Hall -- Philip Levine -- Thom Gunn -- John Hollander -- Adrienne Rich -- Derek Walcott -- Geoffrey Hill -- Sylvia Plath -- John Updike -- Ted Berrigan -- Jean Valentine -- Robert Mezey -- Grace Schulman -- Charles Wright -- June Jordan -- Judith Rodriguez -- Frederick Seidel -- John Fuller -- Tony Harrison -- Les Murray -- Charles Simic -- Dick Allen -- Frank Bidart -- Seamus Heaney -- Stanley Plumly -- Billy Collins -- Douglas Dunn -- Marilyn Hacker -- David Huddle -- Ann Lauterbach -- Charles Martin -- William Matthews --

Henry Taylor -- Louise Gluck -- Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Eavan Boland -- J. D. McClatchy -- Leon Stokesbury -- Star Black -- Marilyn Nelson -- Bruce Smith -- Molly Peacock -- Hugh Seidman -- Floyd Skloot -- Rachel Hadas -- David Lehman -- Timothy Steele -- Agha Shahid Ali -- Denis Johnson -- Sherod Santos -- Julia Alvarez -- Dana Gioia -- T. R. Hummer -- Medbh McGuckian -- Paul Muldoon -- Rita Dove -- Mark Jarman -- Elizabeth Macklin -- Tom Sleigh -- Rosanna Warren -- David Wojahn -- David Baker -- Bruce Bond -- Phillis Levin -- James McCorkle -- John Burnside -- Carol Ann Duffy -- Robin Robertson -- April Bernard -- Henri Cole -- Annie Finch -- Karl Kirchwey -- Deborah Laser -- Jacqueline Osherow -- James Lasdun -- Kate Light -- Joe Bolton -- Sascha Feinstein -- Rafael Campo -- Mike Nelson -- Daniel Gutstein -- Beth Ann Fennelly -- Jason Schneiderman.

Summary

A collection of more than six hundred sonnets which help depict the sonnet tradition in the English language over the last five hundred years.

Subject

Sonnets, English.

Added Author

Levin, Phillis, 1954-

Other Form:

Online version: Penguin book of the sonnet. New York : Penguin Books, 2001 (OCoLC)681709496

ISBN

0140589295 paperback

9780140589290 paperback