The English SonnetA volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer. |
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A. E. HOUSMAN achieved Alexandrine line Amor Astrophel and Stella beauty Bonamy Dobrée breath brow chaste cruel CRUTTWELL D. H. Lawrence death desire diction Donne doth doubt Drayton E. M. FORSTER Edmund Blunden eighteenth century ELIOT Elizabethan sonnet ENGLISH SONNET example eyes fair famous feeling French sonnets G. S. Fraser hast hath Hopkins imitators individual sonnets influence Italian sonnet J. I. M. Stewart John Press Jonson Keats Lady language Laurence Brander look in thy Lord love-poetry love-sonnets love's lust lyric M. C. Bradbrook metaphor Milton mind mistress o'er Oliver Warner Óur passion perhaps Petrarch Petrarchan poem Poetical poets reason rhymes rhythm Romantic Ronsard Rossetti seems sequence Shakespeare Shakespeare's sonnets Sidney Sidney's sighs sixteenth century sonnet about love sonnet became sonnet-sequences sweet thee theme thing Thomas thou thought tone traditional sonnet true twó verse Victorian W. H. Auden weep Wordsworth worst write wrote