The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

Phelan, J.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-12-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403938046

DOI: 10.1057/9780230512627

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 192