Description
Book SynopsisCovering an extensive range of poets, this is the first comprehensive study of the sonnet from the Renaissance to the present. It traces the development of the sonnet and explores why the sonnet is such an attractive form for writers and how it works in terms of shape and rhyme scheme.
Trade ReviewThere is no better close reader of the formal effects of sonnet structure, sound, syntax, rhyme, and rhythm. He exfoliates their localised effects with such deft care and artfulness ... Regan manages somehow to hold our attention throughout and focus his interpretive energies so that each sonnet gets its due and reveals its singular qualities. To read The Sonnet is to have the eye trained to see more, even in sonnets of well-worn familiarity. From now on, whenever I teach or write about sonnets, the first question I will ask myself is: what did Regan have to say? * Joshua Reid, The Spenser Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Renaissance Sonnet 2: The Romantic Sonnet 3: The Victorian Sonnet 4: The Irish Sonnet 5: The American Sonnet 6: The Modern Sonnet Epilogue: The Sonnet and its Travels Bibliography
