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American Sonnets: An Anthology: (American Poets Project #25) (Out of print)
| PUBLISHER | Library of America (10/04/2007) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Description
When American poets turn to the sonnet, they invest it with a glamour and intensity equal to anything they have to show in more flamboyant, new-minted shapes. Like a symphony by Copland or a nude by de Kooning, an American sonnet marries European artistic tradition to New World innovation and expansiveness. Something old and familiar--the themes and schemes and history of the 14-line lyric--becomes something new, vital, and characteristically American. This unique anthology presents one critic's selection from two centuries of American sonnets. Some of David Bromwich's choices--Hart Crane's tribute to Emily Dickinson, for example, or Emma Lazarus's dedication of Lady Liberty to the world's tired and poor--are classics cast in bronze. Others--Elizabeth Bishop's short-lined "Sonnet" or any sonnet typed by Cummings--are hammers that shatter the mold. The heart of the book is in the clusters of sonnets by Longfellow, Very, Tuckerman, Robinson, Frost, Stickney, Wylie, and Millay. Here are our Petrarchs and Shakespeares, the American masters who, by living within the strictures of the octave and the sestet, found full voice, enlarged a tradition, and changed the sonnet forever. About the American Poets Project
Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.
Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.
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ISBN-13:
9781598530155
ISBN-10:
1598530151
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
224
Carton Quantity:
40
Product Dimensions:
4.82 x 0.78 x 7.80 inches
Weight:
0.65 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Dust Cover,
Price on Product,
Table of Contents
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Poetry | American - General
Poetry | Poetry
Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
811.008
Library of Congress Control Number:
2007929878
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When American poets turn to the sonnet, they invest it with a glamour and intensity equal to anything they have to show in more flamboyant, new-minted shapes. Like a symphony by Copland or a nude by de Kooning, an American sonnet marries European artistic tradition to New World innovation and expansiveness. Something old and familiar--the themes and schemes and history of the 14-line lyric--becomes something new, vital, and characteristically American. This unique anthology presents one critic's selection from two centuries of American sonnets. Some of David Bromwich's choices--Hart Crane's tribute to Emily Dickinson, for example, or Emma Lazarus's dedication of Lady Liberty to the world's tired and poor--are classics cast in bronze. Others--Elizabeth Bishop's short-lined "Sonnet" or any sonnet typed by Cummings--are hammers that shatter the mold. The heart of the book is in the clusters of sonnets by Longfellow, Very, Tuckerman, Robinson, Frost, Stickney, Wylie, and Millay. Here are our Petrarchs and Shakespeares, the American masters who, by living within the strictures of the octave and the sestet, found full voice, enlarged a tradition, and changed the sonnet forever. About the American Poets Project
Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.
Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.
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Editor:
Bromwich, David
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His many books include "A Choice of Inheritance", a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and "Skeptical Music", winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. His writings appear regularly in the "New York Review of Books", the "London Review of Books", Raritan, and other publications.
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