Scanty Plot of Ground
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Scanty Plot of Ground

A Book of Sonnets

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Scanty Plot of Ground

A Book of Sonnets

About this book

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that 'of the innumerable traditional verse forms, the sonnet is not only the most persistent but also the most pervasive.' He suggests that 'part of the reason for the durability of the sonnet is its very duration.' It's the perfect length for what Dante Gabriel Rossetti described as 'a moment's monument,' or Edna St. Vincent Millay as putting 'chaos into fourteen lines.' Among the diverting and diverse poets represented here are Elizabeth Bishop, Wanda Coleman, John Donne, Terrance Hayes, John Keats, Claude McKay, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Patricia Smith, William Wordsworth, and W.B. Yeats. There are also translations by Paul Muldoon of sonnets by Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Cesar Vallejo, as well as the doughty duo of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2025
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571373468
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. William Allingham: In a Spring Grove
  6. Matthew Arnold: Shakespeare
  7. W. H. Auden: The Traveller
  8. Philip Ayres: Cynthia on Horseback
  9. Charles Baudelaire: Correspondences
  10. George Barker: To My Mother
  11. Aphra Behn: Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the last of Seven that died before
  12. John Berryman: Sonnet 13
  13. Reginald Dwayne Betts: House of Unending
  14. Elizabeth Bishop: Some Dreams They Forgot
  15. William Blake: If it is true, what the Prophets write
  16. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: The Deeds That Might Have Been
  17. Rupert Brooke: The Soldier
  18. Gwendolyn Brooks: Mentors
  19. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese
  20. Robert Browning: Misconceptions
  21. William Cullen Bryant: Sonnetā€”Mutation
  22. Robert Burns: A Sonnet upon Sonnets
  23. Thomas Carew: Mediocrity in Love Rejected
  24. Ciaran Carson: Spenserā€™s Ireland
  25. George Chapman: Sonnet to the Countess of Bedford
  26. Marilyn Chin: Advice (for E)
  27. John Clare: The Shepherd Boy
  28. Wanda Coleman: Put Some Sex Sonnet
  29. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20, 1796
  30. Billy Collins: Sonnet
  31. William Cowper: To Mary Unwin
  32. Countee Cullen: Yet Do I Marvel
  33. Samuel Daniel: Sonnet 39 from Delia
  34. Elizabeth Daryush: Still-Life
  35. Sir John Davies: If you would know the love which I you bear
  36. John Donne: ā€˜Death be not proudā€™ from Holy Sonnets
  37. Rita Dove: Found Sonnet: The Wig
  38. Michael Drayton: Since Thereā€™s No Help
  39. William Drummond of Hawthornden: The Baptist
  40. Carol Ann Duffy: Anne Hathaway
  41. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Douglass
  42. Robert Frost: The Silken Tent
  43. George Gordon (Lord Byron): Sonnet to George the Fourth
  44. Thomas Gray: On the Death of Richard West
  45. Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke): Sonnet 38 from CƦlica
  46. Thom Gunn: Lerici
  47. Ivor Gurney: September 1922
  48. Marilyn Hacker: On Marriage
  49. Kimiko Hahn: Reckless Sonnet No. 8
  50. Thomas Hardy: Hap
  51. Tony Harrison: Long Distance II
  52. Gwen Harwood: In the Bistro
  53. Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays
  54. Terrance Hayes: American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
  55. Seamus Heaney: Requiem for the Croppies
  56. George Herbert: Redemption
  57. Robert Herrick: Delight in Disorder
  58. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover
  59. Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey): I never saw you, madam, lay apart
  60. Leigh Hunt: Iterating Sonnet
  61. Tyehimba Jess: ā€˜Blind Tom plays for Confederate Troops, 1863ā€™ from Sonnet Crown for Blind Tom
  62. Ben Jonson: A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
  63. Patrick Kavanagh: Epic
  64. John Keats: If by dull rhymes our English must be chainā€™d
  65. Walter Savage Landor: To Robert Browning
  66. Philip Larkin: Love, we must part now: do not let it be
  67. Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus
  68. Brad Leithauser: Post-Coitum Tristesse: A Sonnet
  69. Anne Locke: Sonnet
  70. Michael Longley: Florence Nightingale
  71. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Chaucer
  72. Robert Lowell: ā€˜To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriageā€™
  73. Shane McCrae: Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Was Another Child First
  74. Claude McKay: If We Must Die
  75. Louis MacNeice: Sunday Morning
  76. George Meredith: Lucifer in Starlight
  77. Charlotte Mew: Not for That City
  78. Edna St Vincent Millay: I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
  79. John Milton: When I consider how my light is spent
  80. Hope Mirrlees: The Glass TƔnagra
  81. Edwin Muir: Milton
  82. Les Murray: The Mitchells
  83. Marilyn Nelson: Sonnet IV from A Wreath for Emmett Till
  84. EilƩan Nƭ ChuilleanƔin: Swineherd
  85. Alice Oswald: Sea Sonnet
  86. Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth
  87. Don Paterson: Wave
  88. Carl Phillips: Invasive Species
  89. Sylvia Plath: Mayflower
  90. Edgar Allan Poe: Sonnetā€”To Science
  91. Marie Ponsot: One Is One
  92. Sir Walter Raleigh: Sir Walter Raleigh to his son
  93. Rainer Maria Rilke: The Unicorn
  94. Ed Roberson: Poems, Sunrises, and Precedents
  95. Edwin Arlington Robinson: Fleming Helphenstine
  96. Theodore Roethke: The Favorite
  97. Christina Rossetti: from Monna Innominata
  98. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Willowwood
  99. Siegfried Sassoon: Trench Duty
  100. Anna Seward: To the Poppy
  101. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116
  102. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
  103. Sir Philip Sidney: Sonnet 31 from Astrophel and Stella
  104. Charlotte Smith: Composed during a Walk on the Downs, in November 1787
  105. Patricia Smith: from Motown Crown
  106. Robert Southey: To a Goose
  107. Edmund Spenser: Sonnet 75 from Amoretti
  108. Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
  109. Allen Tate: Sonnet to Beauty
  110. Sara Teasdale: Crowned
  111. Alfred Tennyson: The Kraken
  112. Edward Thomas: If I Should Ever by Chance
  113. Dylan Thomas: Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred
  114. Jean Toomer: November Cotton Flower
  115. Natasha Trethewey: Native Guard
  116. CĆ©sar Vallejo: Testimony
  117. Paul Verlaine & Arthur Rimbaud: Arsehole
  118. Ellen Bryant Voigt: [Thought at first that grief had brought him down.]
  119. Margaret Walker: Childhood
  120. John Greenleaf Whittier: To a Cape Ann Schooner
  121. Richard Wilbur: Sonnet
  122. Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The Sonnet
  123. Oscar Wilde: On the Sale by Auction of Keatsā€™ Love Letters
  124. William Wordsworth: Nuns fret not at their conventā€™s narrow room
  125. Lady Mary Wroth: Sonnet 1 from A Crowne of Sonetts Dedicated to Love
  126. Sir Thomas Wyatt: Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde
  127. Elinor Wylie: Sonnet
  128. William Butler Yeats: Leda and the Swan
  129. Acknowledgements
  130. Index of titles and first lines
  131. About the editor
  132. Also by Paul Muldoon
  133. Copyright

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