Cambridge University Press - The Cambridge Companion To The Sonnet - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Cambridge Companion To The Sonnet
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521735537
Pages: 296 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises; Printed Music Items
Publication Date: 2/3/2011
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets