The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

By Joseph Phelan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349519138
• ISBN13: 9781349519132
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"