''A sonnet is a moment's monument,'' said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in
a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection - whether
they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair or
celebration - reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight and
experience can be concentrated into a mere fourteen lines. Here are
classics such as Milton's ''On His Blindness'', Yeats's ''Leda and
the Swan'' and Frost's ''The Oven Bird'', juxtaposed with the
mischievous wit of Rupert Brooke's ''Sonnet Reversed'', the lyric
defiance of Mona Van Duyn's ''Caring for Surfaces'' and the comic
poignancy of Philip Larkin's ''To Failure''. From the lovelorn
laments of Dante and Petrarch to the artful heights of Sidney,
Spenser and Shakespeare, from the masterpieces of Wordsworth and
Keats to the innovations of Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens and
James Merrill, the sonnet has proved both versatile and enduring.
This delightful anthology displays the incredible range and power
of the verse form that has inspired poets across the centuries.
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