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The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English
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Product Description A unique anthology celebrating that most vigorous of literary forms--the sonnetThe sonnet is one of the oldest and most enduring literary forms of the post-classical world, a meeting place of image and voice, passion and reason, elegy and ode. It is a form that both challenges and liberates the poet. For this anthology, poet and scholar Phillis Levin has gathered more than 600 sonnets to tell the full story of the sonnet tradition in the English language. She begins with its Italian origins; takes the reader through its multifaceted development from the Elizabethan era to the Romantic and Victorian; demonstrates its popularity as a vehicle of protest among writers of the Harlem Renaissance and poets who served in the First World War; and explores its revival among modern and contemporary poets. In her vibrant introduction, Levin traces this history, discussing characteristic structures and shifting themes and providing illuminating readings of individual sonnets. She includes an appendix on structure, biographical notes, and valuable explanatory notes and indexes. And, through her narrative and wide-ranging selection of sonnets and sonnet sequences, she portrays not only the evolution of the form over half a millennium but also its dynamic possibilities. From Publishers Weekly From Chaucer and (100-plus years later) Wyatt and Surrey to John Ashbery, June Jordan and Louise Glock, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English shows just how compelling 14 lines with varying (or no) rhyme scheme have been to poets working in the English language. Phillis Levin (Mercury; Forecasts, Mar. 12) has picked more than 600 poems for the collection, and while many of them are from the 20th century, most of those here don't hold a candle (or a florescent tube) to their forebears. Notes on the poets help further distinguish Dick Allen (b. 1939) from Matthew Arnold. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This compact text is a biography of the sonnet as composed in English. In an introductory essay, Levin (Temples and Fields; creative writing, Hofstra Univ.) discusses the sonnet's origins, history, traditions, and possibilities, including its use by poets of the Harlem Renaissance and veterans of World War I as a form of protest. Interwoven with the history are approaches to interpreting and criticizing this poetic form. The bulk of the text is an anthology of over 600 sonnets composed by more than 230 poets. Over 150 of the poets represented wrote during the 20th century. The text is enriched with an appendix covering sonnet patterns and variations, brief biographies of the poets, a list of additional readings, and indexes of authors, titles, and first lines. No recent publication on sonnets has included such a broad spectrum of sonnet writers or attempted to present so complete a history of the sonnet. Recommended for all public and academic libraries. Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ., Zanesville Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Of The Moon by Charles Best Fra Banc To Banc, Fra Wod To Wod, I Rin by Mark Alexander Boyd Muses That Sing Love's Sensual Empery by George Chapman Needs Must I Leave And Yet Needs Must I Love by Henry Constable Care-charmer Sleepe, Sonne Of The Sable Night by Samuel Daniel Let Others Sing Knights And Palladines by Samuel Daniel Looke, Delia, How Wee Steeme The Half-blowne Rose by Samuel Daniel Although We Do Not All The Good We Love by John (1565-1618) Davies The Author Loving These Homely Meats Specially, Viz.: Cream, Pancakes, by John (1565-1618) Davies Some Blaze The Precious Beauties Of Their Loves by John (1565-1618) Davies How Many Paltry, Foolish, Painted Things by Michael Drayton Love, In A Humor, Play'd The Prodigall by Michael Drayton Nothing But No And I, And I And No by Michael Drayton Since Ther's No Helpe, Come Let Us Kisse And Part by Michael Drayton Since To Obtaine Thee N
