The nineteenth-century sonnet [Elektronisk resurs] / Joseph Phelan.

• Introduction The Wordsworthian Sonnet Revival: Poems in Two Volumes (1807) 'Transcripts of the Private Heart': The Sonnet and Autobiography The Political Sonnet The Devotional Sonnet 'Illegal Attachments': The Amatory Sonnet Sequence 'Thought's Pure Diamond': The Sonnet at the End of the Century Notes Bibliography Index.

• Nineteenth-century poets found in the fourteen lines of the sonnet a versatile and endlessly fascinating poetic resource. For Wordsworth it was a uniquely intimate and confessional medium, the 'key' with which Shakespeare unlocked his heart; for Dante Gabriel Rossetti it was a 'monument' on which the most important moments of existence could be inscribed. This study traces the history of the form through the work of a range of nineteenth-century writers, from established figures like Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins to less well-known poets like Felicia Hemans, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Augusta Webster, and attempts to suggest some of the reasons for its enduring appeal. 
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 'In Phelan's very capable hands, this short and seemingly specialized study proves to be absorbing, far ranging, and rich in implication.' - Choice (Journal of the American Library Association). 

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Literary studies: poetry & poets.  (bicssc)

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.  (bicssc)

Poetry anthologies (various poets).  (bicssc)

Poetry by individual poets.  (bicssc)

Literature.  (eflch)

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