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The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet

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  • © 2005

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  1. Joseph Phelan
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Joseph Phelan
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Wordsworthian Sonnet Revival: Poems in Two Volumes (1807)

    • Joseph Phelan
    Pages 9-33

  4. ‘Transcripts of the private heart’: The Sonnet and Autobiography

    • Joseph Phelan
    Pages 34-60

  5. The Political Sonnet

    • Joseph Phelan
    Pages 61-84

  6. The Devotional Sonnet

    • Joseph Phelan
    Pages 85-106

  7. ‘Illegal Attachments’: The Amatory Sonnet Sequence

    • Joseph Phelan
    Pages 107-133

  8. Thought’s pure diamond’: The Sonnet at the End of the Century

    • Joseph Phelan
    Pages 134-154

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 155-192
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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.

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006

'In Phelan's very capable hands, this short and seemingly specialized study proves to be absorbing, far ranging, and rich in implication.' - Choice (Journal of the American Library Association)

About the author

JOSEPH PHELAN is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is the editor of Clough: Selected Poems (1995) and the author of a number of articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

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