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Editors' Note |
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Personal Essays on Encountering the Sonnet |
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Edward Hirsch, MY OWN ACQUAINTANCE |
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Eavan Boland, DISCOVERING THE SONNET |
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The Sonnet in Summary |
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The Making of a Sonnet: A Formal Introduction |
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THE SONNET IN THE MIRROR |
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) |
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"I will put Chaos into fourteen lines" |
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) |
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"My Muse may well grudge at my heav'nly joy" |
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JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS (1840-1893) |
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from The Sonnet III ("The Sonnet is a world, where feelings caught") |
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) |
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"Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned" |
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"Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room" |
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"If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd" |
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JOHN DOVASTON (1752-1854) |
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from Sonnets, XXIX. Concluding Sonnet on the Sonnet |
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-82) |
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from The House of Life ("A Sonnet is a moment's monument") |
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To Mr. Henry Cary, On the Publication of his Sonnets |
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EBENEZER ELLIOTT (1781-1849) |
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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894) |
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"Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome" |
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FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER (1814-1863) |
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Sonnet-writing. To F.W.F. |
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THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON (1832-1914) |
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EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON (1845-1907) |
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EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) |
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (1850-1919) |
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EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) |
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Sonnet ("The master and slave go hand in hand") |
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LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870-1945) |
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SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893-1978) |
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"Farewell, I thought. How many sonnets have" |
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MERRILL MOORE (1903-1957) |
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"Scorn not the sonnet" (Wordsworth) |
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GEORGE STARBUCK (1931-1996) |
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Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line |
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Sonnet ("All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now") |
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THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY |
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THE SONNET IN ITS CENTURY: THE SIXTEENTH |
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SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542) |
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"The long love that in my thought doth harbor" |
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"Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind" |
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"My galley charged with forgetfulness" |
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HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517-1547) |
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"Love, that doth reign and live within my thought" |
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"Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead" |
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from A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, upon the 51. Psalme., Have mercie upon me (o God) after thy great merci |
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GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1525-1577) |
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"That self-same tongue which first did thee entreat" |
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GILES FLETCHER, THE ELDER (1549-1611) |
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from Licia, Sonnet XXVIII ("In time the strong and stately turrets fall.") |
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EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599) |
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from Amoretti, Sonnet 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands") |
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from Amoretti, Sonnet 8 ("More then most faire, full of the living fire") |
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from Amoretti, Sonnet 30 ("My love is lyke to yse, and I to fyre") |
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from Amoretti, Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand") |
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from Amoretti, Sonnet 77 ("Was it a dreame, or did I see it playne") |
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FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628) |
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from C‘lica, Sonnet LXXXVI ("The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted") |
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SIR WALTER RALEGH (1554?-1618) |
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Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son |
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586) |
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from Astrophil and Stella 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") |
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from Astrophil and Stella 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies") |
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from Astrophil and Stella 39 ("Come sleep! O sleep, the certain knot of peace") |
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from Astrophil and Stella 54 ("Because I breathe not love to everyone") |
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from Astrophil and Stella 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know") |
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THOMAS LODGE (c. 1558-1625) |
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from Phillis, Sonnet XL ("Resembling none, and none so poor as I") |
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GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) |
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A Coronet for his Mistress Philosophy 1 ("Muses that sing love's sensual empery") |
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SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619) |
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from Delia 49 ("Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night") |
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MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631) |
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from Idea 61 ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part") |
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Upon the Lines, and Life, of the famous Scenic Poet, Master William Shakespeare |
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MARK ALEXANDER BOYD (1563-1601) |
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Sonet ("Fra banc to banc, Fra wod to wad, I rin") |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) |
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from Love's Labour's Lost (act 4, scene 3) |
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from Romeo and Juliet (act 1, scene 5) |
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Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") |
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Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes") |
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Sonnet 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") |
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Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") |
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Sonnet 129 (-Ili expense of spirit in a waste of shame") |
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Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") |
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Sonnet 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") |
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Sonnet 147 ("My love is as a fever, longing still") |
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An Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney |
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BARNABE BARNES (1569-1609) |
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from Parthenophil and Parthenophe, Sonnet XLIIII ("Oh dart and thunder whose fierce violence") |
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SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) |
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"If you would know the love which I you bear" |
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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY |
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THE SONNET IN ITS CENTURY: THE SEVENTEENTH |
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A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth |
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RICHARD BARNFIELD (1574-1627) |
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To his Friend Maister R.L. In Praise of Musique and Poetrie |
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LADY MARY WROTH (1586-1652) |
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"When everyone to pleasing pastime hies" |
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from Holy Sonnets 1 ("Thou hast made me, and shall Thy work decay?") |
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from Holy Sonnets 5 ("I am a little world made cunningly") |
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from Holy Sonnets 7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners, blow") |
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from Holy Sonnets 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee") |
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from Holy Sonnets 14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you") |
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from Holy Sonnets 19 ("Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one") |
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EDWARD, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1583-1648) |
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WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649) |
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Sonnet LXXIII ("My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow") |
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GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) |
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"My God, where is that ancient heat towards thee" |
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"Sure Lord, there is enough in thee to dry" |
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Song: Mediocrity in Love Rejected |
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ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674) |
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The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad |
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"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth" |
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"A book was writ of late called Tetrachordon" |
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To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652 |
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"Methought I saw my late espoused saint" |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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"When I consider how my light is spent" |
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A Sonnet, of Petrarc, Shewing how long he had lov'd Madonna Laura |
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Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven That Died Before |
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
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THE SONNET IN ITS CENTURY: THE EIGHTEENTH |
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THOMAS EDWARDS (1699-1757) |
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On the Edition of Mr. Pope's Works with a Commentary and Notes |
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On the Death of Mr. Richard West |
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THOMAS WARTON, THE YOUNGER (1728-1790) |
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WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800) |
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Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esquire |
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To a Friend, Who Thinks Sensibility a Misfortune |
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ANNA MARIA JONES (1748-1829) |
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CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806) |
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"The partial Muse has from my earliest hours" |
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DAVID HUMPHREYS (1752-1818) |
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Addressed to His Royal Highness, The Prince of Brazil, On Taking Leave of the Court of Lisbon, July, 1797 |
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JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE (1754-1796) |
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY |
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THE SONNET IN ITS CENTURY: THE NINETEENTH |
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WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) |
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MARY ROBINSON (1758-1800) |
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from Sappho and Phaon, I. Sonnet Introductory |
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Sonnet ("Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough") |
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WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850) |
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To the River Itchin, Near Winton |
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1767-1848) |
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) |
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
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"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free" |
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon" |
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"Surprised by joy-impatient as the wind" |
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) |
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Sonnet Addressed to My Mother |
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ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843) |
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from Poems on the Slave Trade VI ("High in the air exposed the slave is hung") |
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WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775-1864) |
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To the Grasshopper and the Cricket |
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GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) |
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"Rousseau-Voltaire-our Gibbon-and de Stag" |
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MARY LOCKE (fl. 1791-1816) |
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"I hate the Spring in path-colored vest" |
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) |
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On first looking into Chapman's Homer |
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On seeing the Elgin Marbles |
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"When I have fears that I may cease to be" |
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"Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art" |
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LIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) |
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from Sonnets from the Portuguese XVIII ("I never gave a lock of hair away") |
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from Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIII ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.") |
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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892) |
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) |
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EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) |
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) |
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"How thought you that this thing could captivate?" |
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MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850) |
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ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) |
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FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873) |
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from Sonnets, First Series X ("An upper chamber in a darkened house") |
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from Sonnets, Second Series VII ("His heart was in his garden; but his brain") |
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from Sonnets, Third Series X ("Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips") |
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MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888) |
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WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824-1889) |
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GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) |
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) |
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from The House of Life, XVIII Genius in Beauty |
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from The House of Life, XLVIL Broken Music |
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from The House of Life, LXXXIIL Barren Spring |
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from The House of Life, XCVII. A Superscription |
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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894) |
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ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909) |
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On the Russian persecution of the Jews |
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WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (1840-1922) |
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"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame" |
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"Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee" |
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"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day." |
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"Thou art indeed just, Lord; if I contend" |
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (1850-1919) |
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LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE (1856-1935) |
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On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters |
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LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY (1861-1920) |
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FORGE SANTAYANA (1863-1952) |
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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
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THE SONNET IN ITS CENTURY: THE TWENTIETH |
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CHARLOTTE MEW (1869-1928) |
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"Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord" |
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Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same |
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EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917) |
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WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) |
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The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain |
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) |
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Sonnet in Search of an Author |
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MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) |
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A Primer of the Daily Round |
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from Jerusalem Sonnets 10 ("Dark night-or rather, only the stars") |
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ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) |
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from Two Sonnets I ("I dwelled in Hell on earth to write this rhyme") |
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μητιfinalsigma;...omicronυτιfinalsigma (Not any man...No Man) |
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Sonnet ("Each servant stamps the reader with a look") |
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Sonnet ("Where it begins will remain a question") |
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To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph |
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from Sonnets for a Dying Man XLIX ("The life I die moves through the death I live") |
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from She Writes 1 ("Dear one, no news from you so long.") |
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Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings |
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from Twenty-two Sonnets 16 ("Xuan Lot Danang fallen, we wait for the fall of Saigon.") |
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October 29, 1991: 4 PM, outside Saratoga Springs |
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Sunflower Sonnet Number Two |
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Sonnet. To Tell the Truth |
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Suicidal (or Simply Drunken) Thoughts on Being Refused a Guggenheim Grant for the 11th Time |
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Sonnet ("Afternoon sun on her back") |
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Sonnet ("Five A.M. on East Fourteenth I'm out to eat") |
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ELIZABETH SMITHER (1941-) |
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ELEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN (1942-) |
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WILLIAM MATTHEWS (1942-1997) |
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Cheap Seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball, 1959 |
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from From a Book of Prophets, 3. Boca Raton, 1990 |
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ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT (1943-) |
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from Kyrie ("Who said the worst was past, who knew") |
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from Kilim 1 ("The force of habit takes order to its heart") |
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Sonnet ("The late Gracie Allen was a very lucid comedienne") |
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from Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos, 20 sonnet for Carlos |
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An interrogator's Opening Remarks |
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from Love Sonnets, Sonnet 9 ("Darling! I have to see you! Can you come?") |
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from 33 ("Let's make a modern primer for our kids") |
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Sunday Night in Santa Rosa |
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from The Old Country I ("Where every town was a tidy town") |
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from Slaughter 5 ("Now let us go back to the stunning") |
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from The Work, 1. Today ("Today, this moment, speechlessly in pain") |
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from Mystery Train, 1. Homage: Light from the Hall |
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from Sonnets from One State West, 1. Inside the Covered |
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from Reckless Sonnets 8 ("My father, as a boy in Milwaukee, thought") |
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THE SONNET GOES TO DIFFERENT LENGTHS |
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THE SONNET GOES TO DIFFERENT LENGTHS |
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DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) |
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from La Vita Nuova (The New Life), ("Death, alway cruel, Pity's foe in chief") (trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti) |
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from La Vita Nuova (The New Life), ("All ye that pass along Love's trodden way") (trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti) |
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1342-1400) |
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from Troilus and Criseyde, Canticus Troili |
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564) |
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from Sonnets, V To Giovanni da Pistoia When the Author was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel, (trans. Gail Mazur) |
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from Polyhymnia, Farewell to Arms |
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THOMAS WATSON (c. 1557-1592) |
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from Hekatompathia, A Passionate Century of Love XIX ("if Cupid were a child, as poets feign") |
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THOMAS LODGE (c. 1557-1625) |
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from Rosalynde, Montanus's Sonnet |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) |
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Sonnet 126 ("0 thou, my lovely boy, who in the power") |
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BARNABE BARNES (c. 1569-1609) |
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from Parthenophil and Parthenophe. Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes 36 ("And thus continuing with outrageous fier") |
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GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) |
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On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament |
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SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1641) |
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from Sonnets I ("Dost see how unregarded now") |
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RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657) |
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Sonnet ("When I by thy faire shape did sweare") |
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ANN RADCLIFFE (1764-1823) |
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) |
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"It is no Spirit who from Heaven hath flown" |
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"Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies" |
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) |
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EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849) |
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) |
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FORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909) |
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from Modern Love I ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes") |
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from Modern Love XXV ("You like not that French novel? Tell me why.") |
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from Modern Love XXX ("What are we first? First, animals; and next") |
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from Modern Love L ("Thus piteously Love closed what he begat") |
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GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) |
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Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves |
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That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection |
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ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891) |
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from Nonsense, Part 2, I. Drunk Driver (trans. Wyatt Mason) |
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BLAISE CENDRARS (1887-1961) |
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from Unnatural Sonnets, OpOetic (trans. Ron Padgett) |
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from Unnatural Sonnets, Academie Medrano (trans. Ron Padgett) |
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) |
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E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) |
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from Sonnets-Actualities XVI ("i have found what you are like") |
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JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT (1897-1940) |
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from The Quest III ("Two friends who met here and embraced are gone") |
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ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) |
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Sonnet ("Caught-the bubble") |
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from Meredithian Sonnets I ("To suffer, yes, but suffer and not create") |
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ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988) |
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MONA VAN DUYN (1921-2004) |
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Double Sonnet for Minimalists |
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from Powers of Thirteen ("That other time of day when the chiming of Thirteen") |
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from The Sonnets L ("I like to beat people up") |
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from The Sonnets, LXXIL A Sonnet for Dick Gallup |
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Sonnet ("You jerk you didn't call me up") |
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Post-Coitum Tristesse: A Sonnet |
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from Two Tidal Sonnets, 1. Ludovisi Throne |
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THE SONNET AROUND THE WORLD |
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THE SONNET AROUND THE WORLD |
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GUIDO CAVALCANTI (c. 1255-1300) |
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Sonnet IX ("I am reduced at last to self compassion") (adapted by Ezra Pound) |
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DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) |
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from La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ("The thoughts are broken in my memory") (trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti) |
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RANCESCO PETRARCH (1304-1374) |
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"I find no peace, and all my war is done" (adapted by Sir Thomas Wyatt) |
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564) |
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"My lady, these eyes see vividly-far, near" (trans. John Frederick Nims) |
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VITTORIA COLONNA (1492-1547) |
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from Sonnets for Michelangelo 1 ("Since my chaste love for many years") (trans. Abigail Brundin) |
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JOACHIM DU BELLAY (1522-1560) |
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"Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un Beau Voyage..." (adapted by Anthony Hecht) |
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LUIS DE CAMOES (1524-1580) |
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Reader (trans. William Baer) |
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LUIS DE GONGORA (1561-1627) |
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Sonnet LXXXII (Amorous) (trans. Edith Grossman) |
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Instant Sonnet (trans. Edith Grossman) |
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SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695) |
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Sonnet 145 ("This thing you see, a bright-colored deceit") (trans. Edith Grossman) |
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) |
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Nature and Art (trans. David Luke) |
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GIUSEPPE BELLI (1791-1863) |
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Night of Terror (trans. Miller Williams) |
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ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN (1799-1837) |
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from Eugene Onegin VII ("The art of verse, that lofty pleasure") (trans. Babette Deutsch) |
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GERARD DE NERVAL (1808-1855) |
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The Disinherited (trans. Daniel Hoffman) |
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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867) |
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Correspondences (trans. Richard Howard) |
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STEPHANE MALLARME (1842-1898) |
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The Tomb of Poe (trans. Louis Simpson) |
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PAUL VERLAINE (1844-1896) |
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Night Scene (trans. Norman R. Shapiro) |
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ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891) |
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Voyelles (trans. F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
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"I pursue a form that my style does not find" (trans. Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda) |
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Helen (trans. Richard Wilbur) |
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RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) |
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An Archaic Torso of Apollo (trans. W.D. Snodgrass) |
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ALFONSINA STORNI (1892-1938) |
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To My Lady of Poetry (trans. Kay Short) |
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CSAR VALLEJO (1892-1938) |
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Black Stone Lying on a White Stone (trans. Robert Bly and John Knoepfle) |
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My Burned Suit (trans. Salma Khadra Jayyusi and John Heath-Stubbs) |
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JORGE GUILLN (1893-1984) |
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The Horses (trans. Richard Wilbur) |
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EUGENIO MONTALE (1896-1981) |
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"The bangs that hide your childlike forehead" (trans. Jonathan Galassi) |
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FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA (1898-1936) |
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"O secret voice of dark love!" (trans. John K. Walsh and Francisco Aragon) |
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JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986) |
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A Poet of the Thirteenth Century (trans. Alan S. Trueblood) |
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RAYMOND QUENEAU (1903-1976) |
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from 100,000,000,000,000 Poems ("At five precisely out went La Marquise") (trans. Stanley Chapman) |
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from Cien sonetos de amor LXXXIX ("When I die, I want your hands on my eyes") (trans. Stephen Tapscott) |
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MIGUEL HERNANDEZ (1910-1942) |
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"You threw me a lemon, oh it was sour" (trans. Robert Bly) |
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ANA ENRIQUETA TERAN (1918-) |
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"Subtle in your fourteen lines surge" (trans. Marcel Smith) |
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YEHUDA AMICHAI (1924-2000) |
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A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention (trans. Assia Gutmann) |
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PHILLIPPE JACCOTTET (1925-) |
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Sonnet ("Don't worry, it will come! You're drawing near") (trans. Donald Justice) |
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DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH (1936-2005) |
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Clockwork Doll (trans. Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch) |
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Night Harvest (trans. Martha Collins and Thuy Dinh) |
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TEN QUESTIONS FOR A SONNET WORKSHOP |
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THE SONNET UNDER THE LAMP: A HISTORY OF COMMENTS ON A FORM 38' |
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Appendices |
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1. Suggestions for Further Reading |
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Permissions Acknowledgments |
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Index |
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