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Great Sonnets
About this book
One of the most powerfully moving and evocative forms of poetry, the sonnet has been popular for more than 450 years. Unlike many other poetic genres, the sonnet has never gone out of fashion and its popularity today remains unabated.
This collection contains a rich selection of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Included are great sonnets by the greatest poets. All have been carefully chosen for distinction in style or substance or both.
Included are such masterpieces of the form as: "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" by Shakespeare; "Death Be Not Proud" by Donne; "On His Blindness" by Milton; "The World Is Too Much with Us" by Wordsworth; "Ozymandias" by Shelley; "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" by Keats; "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" by E. Browning; "Acquainted with the Night" by Frost; "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" by Millay; and poems by Spenser, Sidney, Burns, Blake, Byron, Longfellow, Tennyson, Poe, Swinburne, Wilde, E. A. Robinson, Dunbar, MacLeish, and many more.
In this inexpensive treasury, lovers of poetry can study and savor the ways in which a host of great poets used the versatile sonnet form to express everything from the "light conceits of love" to the most profound meditations.
Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The New Colossus" and "Ozymandias."
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS
- Copyright Page
- Note
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503-1542)
- HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517?β1547)
- GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1525?-1577)
- SIR WALTER RALEGH (1552?-1618)
- EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)
- SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
- SAMUEL DANIEL (1562-1619)
- MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)
- JOSHUA SYLVESTER (1563-1618)
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
- BARNABE BARNES (1569?-1609)
- JOHN DONNE (1573-1631)
- WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649)
- GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
- JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
- THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)
- WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
- ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)
- WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
- ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)
- CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)
- JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE (1775-1841)
- LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859)
- GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
- JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
- HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796β1849)
- THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845)
- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)
- CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER (1808-1879)
- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
- EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
- WILLIAM BELL SCOTT (1811β1890)
- JONES VERY (1813-1880)
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)
- FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)
- MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
- GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)
- DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)
- CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
- THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON (1832-1914)
- WILLIAM MORRIS (1834β1896)
- ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909)
- JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS (1840β1893)
- WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT (1840β1922)
- THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
- MATHILDE BLIND (1841-1896)
- EDWARD DOWDEN (1843-1913)
- ROBERT BRIDGES (1844β1930)
- GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
- EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON (1845-1907)
- ALICE MEYNELL (1847β1922)
- EMMA LAZARUS (1849β1887)
- JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849β1916)
- PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON (1850-1887)
- OSCAR WILDE (1856β1900)
- CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS (1860-1943)
- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865β1939)
- ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)
- EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
- LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870β1945)
- PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872β1906)
- ROBERT FROST (1875β1963)
- SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886β1967)
- RUPERT BROOKE (1887β1915)
- EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
- ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892β1982)
- WILFRED OWEN (1893β1918)
- Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
- DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS