Sonnets: From Dante to the Present (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)
By Unknown Author.
Description
``A sonnet is a moment's monument,'' said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection - whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair or celebration - reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight and experience can be concentrated into a mere fourteen lines. Here are classics such as Milton's ``On His Blindness'', Yeats's ``Leda and the Swan'' and Frost's ``The Oven Bird'', juxtaposed with the mischievous wit of Rupert Brooke's ``Sonnet Reversed'', the lyric d...
ISBN(s)
1841597449, 9781841597447
