This illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus on vicissitudes, paying particular attention to how individual poets from Shakespeare to Strand have claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened them, shortened them, elaborated on them, and, in turn, been defined by them. Three sections “The Sonnet in the Mirror,” “The Sonnet Goes to Different Lengths,” and “The Sonnet extraordinary durability and its reinventions. The collection opens with personal introductions by the editors, and, in the appendix, they provide “Ten Questions for a Sonnet Workshop” to jump-start a conversation between students and teachers. With more than three hundred poems, The Making of a Sonnet guides readers through a vigorous adventures in craft and practice, right up to its extraordinary resurgence in contemporary poetry.
Author: Eavan Boland
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/01/2009
Series: Norton Anthology
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393333534
Language: English
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