Author

Publication

2011 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

70,000 words, Guess

Page Count

280 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780521514675
  • ISBN-139780521735537
  • ISBN-100521514673
  • ISBN-10052173553X
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010040683
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  • OCLC Control Number665137579
  • Better World Books9780521514675
  • Better World Books9780521735537
  • Open LibraryOL24479558M

Classifications

  • DDC821/.04209
  • LCCPR509.S7 C36 2011
  • LCCPN1514

Description

"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 e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today"--

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Series Statement

  • Cambridge companions to literature

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