The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521514673 ISBN 13: 9780521514675

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.

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Review:

'A comprehensive companion to the sonnet in English.' Will Christie, Australian Book Review

'... The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet bears the hallmarks of its series ... the volume offers a passable introduction to current thinking about its subject, and there are spots of original thinking.' Recent Studies in the English Renaissance

Book Description:

Covering sonnets as diverse as those by Dante, Shakespeare and e. e. cummings, distinguished scholars and poets discuss this major poetic form as a global and multimedia phenomenon. A fresh and authoritative overview, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521514673
• ISBN 13: 9780521514675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Cousins A. D., Howarth Peter