The Nineteenth Century Sonnet

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.

Joseph Phelan is Lecturer in English, School of English and Performance Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester.

Introduction

1

(8)

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

9

(25)

`Transcripts of the private heart': The Sonnet and Autobiography

34

(27)

The Political Sonnet

61

(24)

The Devotional Sonnet

85

(22)

`Illegal Attachments': The Amatory Sonnet Sequence

107

(27)

`Thought's pure diamond': The Sonnet at the End of the Century

134

(21)

Notes

155

(24)

Bibliography

179

(8)

Index

187

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The Nineteenth Century Sonnet

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