Book of sonnets
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- Wordsworth Editions 1995
- "xxv,195p. : ill. ;19.5cm."
"Sonnet, a poem that has 14 lines, each contain 10 syllables and a fixed pattern of rhyme. This broad selection of sonnets from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century is arranged thematically, and ranges from the love sonnets of the early masters through despair, faith, the spirit of place, death and other themes. As well as the great sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare, Donne and Milton, it includes deeply moving examples of sonnets of poets as diverse as Wordsworth Keats, Hopkins, Meredith, Brooke and Yeats."