The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

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Summary

A team of distinguished poets and scholars provides an authoritative guide to the history and development of the sonnet.

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List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Contemporary poets and the sonnet: a trialogue	p. 6
The sonnet and the lyric mode	p. 25
The sonnet, subjectivity and gender	p. 46
The English sonnet in manuscript, print and mass media	p. 66
European beginnings and transmissions: Dante, Petrarch and the sonnet sequence	p. 84
Desire, discontent, parody: the love sonnet in early modern England	p. 105
Shakespeare's Sonnets	p. 125
Sacred desire, forms of belief: the religious sonnet in early modern Britain	p. 145
Survival and change: the sonnet from Milton to the Romantics	p. 166
The Romantic sonnet	p. 185
The Victorian sonnet	p. 204
The modern sonnet	p. 225
The contemporary sonnet	p. 245
Further reading	p. 267
Index	p. 271
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