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A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 available in Paperback, eBook
A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850
by Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson
Paula R. Feldman
- ISBN-10:
- 0195115627
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195115628
- Pub. Date:
- 12/20/2002
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0195115627
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195115628
- Pub. Date:
- 12/20/2002
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850
by Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson
Paula R. Feldman
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Expertly edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson, this volume is the first in modern times to collect the sonnets of the Romantic periodmany never before published in the twentieth centuryand contains nearly five hundred examples composed between 1750 and 1850 by 81 poets, nearly half of them women. A Century of Sonnets includes in their entirety such important but difficult to find sonnet sequences as William Wordsworth's The River Duddon, Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon, and Robert Southey's Poems on the Slave Trade, along with Browning's enduring classic, Sonnets from the Portuguese. The poems collected here express the full sweep of human emotion and explore a wide range of themes, including love, grief, politics, friendship, nature, art, and the enigmatic character of poetry itself. Indeed, for many poets the sonnet form elicited their strongest work.
A Century of Sonnets shows us that far from disappearing with Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet underwent a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period, giving us a rich body of work that continues to influence poets even today.
A Century of Sonnets shows us that far from disappearing with Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet underwent a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period, giving us a rich body of work that continues to influence poets even today.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780195115628 |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Publication date: | 12/20/2002 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 304 |
Product dimensions: | 9.18(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.88(d) |
About the Author
Paula R. Feldman is C. Wallace Martin Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Daniel Robinson is Assistant Professor of English at Widener University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | xxi | |
Introduction | 3 | |
Suggested Further Reading | 21 | |
Editorial Principles | 23 | |
1. | On a Family-Picture | 25 |
2. | 'Tongue-doughty pedant' | 25 |
3. | On the Death of Mr. Richard West | 26 |
4. | 'While summer-suns o'er the gay prospect played' | 27 |
5. | To the River London | 27 |
6. | 'As when, to one who long hath watched' | 28 |
7. | Written at a Farm | 28 |
8. | On a Frightful Dream | 28 |
9. | On Christmas | 29 |
10. | 'The partial Muse has from my earliest hours' | 29 |
11. | Written at the Close of Spring | 30 |
12. | To a Nightingale | 30 |
13. | To the Moon | 31 |
14. | To the South Downs | 31 |
15. | To Sleep | 31 |
16. | Supposed to be Written by Werter | 32 |
17. | By the Same. To Solitude | 32 |
18. | By the Same | 32 |
19. | From Petrarch | 33 |
20. | 'Blest is yon shepherd, on the turf reclined' | 33 |
21. | Written on the Sea Shore.--October, 1784 | 34 |
22. | To the River Arun | 34 |
23. | To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785 | 34 |
24. | To the Naiad of the Arun | 35 |
25. | 'Should the lone wanderer, fainting on his way' | 35 |
26. | To Night | 35 |
27. | Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex | 36 |
28. | The Captive Escaped in the Wilds of America. Addressed to the Hon. Mrs. O'Neill | 36 |
29. | To Dependence | 37 |
30. | Written in September 1791, During a Remarkable Thunder Storm | 37 |
31. | On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea | 37 |
32. | 'Where the wild woods and pathless forests frown' | 38 |
33. | The Sea View | 38 |
34. | Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening | 39 |
35. | Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799 | 39 |
36. | On Dreams | 39 |
37. | 'No more by cold philosophy confined' | 40 |
38. | To Mrs. Hayley, On her Voyage to America. 1784 | 40 |
39. | 'Ah! let not hope fallacious, airy, wild' | 41 |
40. | To Twilight | 42 |
41. | To Hope | 42 |
42. | To the Moon | 43 |
43. | To the Strawberry | 43 |
44. | To the Curlew | 43 |
45. | To the Torrid Zone | 44 |
46. | To the White Bird of the Tropic | 44 |
47. | To a Friend | 45 |
48. | 'Languid, and sad, and slow' | 45 |
49. | Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage | 45 |
50. | Written at Bamborough Castle | 46 |
51. | To the River Wensbeck | 46 |
52. | To the River Tweed | 47 |
53. | To the River Itchin, Near Winton | 47 |
54. | On Dover Cliffs. July 20, 1787 | 47 |
55. | To the River Cherwell | 48 |
56. | 'Oxford, since late I left thy peaceful shore' | 48 |
57. | To Valclusa | 49 |
58. | 'Dear Babe, whose meaning by fond looks expressed' | 49 |
59. | To the Spider | 49 |
60. | To the Owl | 50 |
61. | 'I hate the Spring in parti-colored vest' | 50 |
62. | To the Visions of Fancy | 51 |
63. | Sun-Rise: A Sonnet | 51 |
64. | Night | 52 |
65. | 'Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve' | 52 |
66. | Storied Sonnet | 53 |
67. | To the Bat | 53 |
68. | To Echo | 54 |
69. | To the Moon | 54 |
70-80. | Sonnets on Eminent Characters | |
70. No. I. | To the Honorable Mr. Erskine | 55 |
71. No. II. | Burke | 55 |
72. No. III. | Priestley | 56 |
73. No. IV. | La Fayette | 56 |
74. No. V. | Kosciusko | 57 |
75. No. VI. | Pitt | 57 |
76. No. VII. | To the Rev. W. L. Bowles | 58 |
77. No. VIII. | Mrs. Siddons | 58 |
78. No. IX. | To William Godwin, Author of Political Justice | 59 |
79. No. X. | To Robert Southey | 59 |
80. No. XI. | To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. | 59 |
81. | To the Autumnal Moon | 60 |
82. | On a Discovery Made Too Late | 60 |
83. | To the River Otter | 61 |
84. | To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me | 61 |
85-87. | Sonnets, Attempted in the Manner of 'Contemporary Writers' | |
85. I. | ('Pensive, at eve, on the hard world I mused') | 61 |
86. II. | To Simplicity | 62 |
87. III. | On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country | 62 |
88. | To W. L. Esq. While He Sung a Song to Purcell's Music | 62 |
89. | Fancy in Nubibus. Or The Poet in the Clouds | 63 |
90. | Work Without Hope | 63 |
91. | The Old Man's Sigh. A Sonnet | 64 |
92. | Life | 64 |
93. | Pantisocracy | 64 |
94. | To Winter | 65 |
95. | On the Approach of Autumn | 65 |
96. | To Tyranny | 66 |
97. | To Ancestry | 66 |
98. | The Vanity of National Grandeur | 67 |
99. | On the Rapid Extension of the Suburbs | 67 |
100. | To Dreams | 68 |
101. | Anxiety | 68 |
102. | Friendship | 69 |
103. | To Time | 69 |
104. | To My Pen | 70 |
105. | On an Early Spring | 70 |
106. | 'Was it some sweet device of faery land' | 71 |
107. | 'We were two pretty babes' | 71 |
108. | 'O! I could laugh to hear the midnight wind' | 71 |
109. | 'If from my lips some angry accents fell' | 72 |
110. | The Family Name | 72 |
111-154. | Sappho and Phaon | |
111. I. | Sonnet Introductory | 73 |
112. II. | The Temple of Chastity | 73 |
113. III. | The Bower of Pleasure | 74 |
114. IV. | Sappho Discovers her Passion | 74 |
115. V. | Contemns its Power | 75 |
116. VI. | Describes the Characteristics of Love | 75 |
117. VII. | Invokes Reason | 75 |
118. VIII. | Her Passion Increases | 76 |
119. IX. | Laments the Volatility of Phaon | 76 |
120. X. | Describes Phaon | 76 |
121. XI. | Rejects the Influence of Reason | 77 |
122. XII. | Previous to her Interview with Phaon | 77 |
123. XIII. | She Endeavors to Fascinate Him | 78 |
124. XIV. | To the Eolian Harp | 78 |
125. XV. | Phaon Awakes | 78 |
126. XVI. | Sappho Rejects Hope | 79 |
127. XVII. | The Tyranny of Love | 79 |
128. XVIII. | To Phaon | 79 |
129. XIX. | Suspects his Constancy | 80 |
130. XX. | To Phaon | 80 |
131. XXI. | Laments her Early Misfortunes | 81 |
132. XXII. | Phaon Forsakes Her | 81 |
133. XXIII. | Sappho's Conjectures | 81 |
134. XXIV. | Her Address to the Moon | 82 |
135. XXV. | To Phaon | 82 |
136. XXVI. | Contemns Philosophy | 82 |
137. XXVII. | Sappho's Address to the Stars | 83 |
138. XXVIII. | Describes the Fascinations of Love | 83 |
139. XXIX. | Determines to Follow Phaon | 84 |
140. XXX. | Bids Farewell to Lesbos | 84 |
141. XXXI. | Describes her Bark | 84 |
142. XXXII. | Dreams of a Rival | 85 |
143. XXXIII. | Reaches Sicily | 85 |
144. XXXIV. | Sappho's Prayer to Venus | 85 |
145. XXXV. | Reproaches Phaon | 86 |
146. XXXVI. | Her Confirmed Despair | 86 |
147. XXXVII. | Foresees her Death | 87 |
148. XXXVIII. | To a Sigh | 87 |
149. XXXIX. | To the Muses | 87 |
150. XL. | Visions Appear to her in a Dream | 88 |
151. XLI. | Resolves to Take the Leap of Leucata | 88 |
152. XLII. | Her Last Appeal to Phaon | 88 |
153. XLIII. | Her Reflections on the Leucadian Rock Before She Perishes | 89 |
154. XLIV. | Conclusive | 89 |
155. | Laura to Petrarch | 90 |
156. | To-- | 90 |
157. | Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick | 91 |
158. | 'My pleasant home! where erst when sad and faint' | 91 |
159. | 'Oh, I have told thee every secret care' | 92 |
160. | Written at the Hotwells, near Bristol | 92 |
161. | 'Erst when I wandered far from those I loved' | 93 |
162. | 'Oh, she was almost speechless!' | 93 |
163. | 'Whether thou smile or frown, thou beauteous face' | 93 |
164. | Metaphysical Sonnet | 94 |
165-170. | Poems on the Slave Trade | |
165. I | ('Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain') | 94 |
166. II | ('Why dost thou beat thy breast and rend thine hair') | 95 |
167. III | ('Oh he is worn with toil! the big drops run') | 95 |
168. IV | (''Tis night; the mercenary tyrants sleep') | 95 |
169. V | ('Did then the bold slave rear at last the sword') | 96 |
170. VI | ('High in the air exposed the slave is hung') | 96 |
171. | To a Goose | 97 |
172. | Winter | 97 |
173. | Written in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire | 97 |
174. | To Love | 98 |
175. | To Freedom | 99 |
176. | 'When Life's realities the Soul perceives' | 99 |
177. | To a Friend, Who Thinks Sensibility a Misfortune | 100 |
178. | 'By Derwent's rapid stream as oft I strayed' | 100 |
179. | 'Seek not, my Lesbia, the sequestered dale' | 100 |
180. | To Honora Sneyd | 101 |
181. | 'Ingratitude, how deadly is thy smart' | 101 |
182. | To-- | 101 |
183. | December Morning | 102 |
184. | 'In every breast affection fires, there dwells' | 102 |
185. | To Mr. Henry Cary, On the Publication of his Sonnets | 103 |
186. | To a Young Lady, Purposing to Marry a Man of Immoral Character in the Hope of his Reformation | 103 |
187. | To the Poppy | 103 |
188. | On a Lock of Miss Sarah Seward's Hair Who Died in her Twentieth Year | 104 |
189. | 'On the damp margin of the sea-beat shore' | 104 |
190. | Written December 1790 | 104 |
191. | To May | 105 |
192. | Winter | 106 |
193. | The Indian | 107 |
194. | To Mrs. Unwin | 107 |
195. | To George Romney, Esq. | 108 |
196. | 'Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild' | 108 |
197. | The Winter Traveler | 109 |
198. | Written in a Shrubbery Towards the Decline of Autumn | 109 |
199. | Written in a Winter's Morning | 110 |
200. | Written in Ill Health | 110 |
201. | 'The veil's removed, the gaudy, flimsy veil' | 111 |
202. | On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress | 111 |
203. | 1801 | 112 |
204. | '"With how sad steps, O Moon thou climb'st the sky"' | 112 |
205. | 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room' | 112 |
206. | 'How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks' | 113 |
207. | 'Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?' | 113 |
208. | Composed after a Journey across the Hamilton Hills, Yorkshire | 114 |
209. | 'These words were uttered in a pensive mood' | 114 |
210. | 'With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh' | 114 |
211. | Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803 | 115 |
212. | 'Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne' | 115 |
213. | 'The world is too much with us' | 115 |
214. | 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free' | 116 |
215. | Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais, August, 1802 | 116 |
216. | To Toussaint L'Ouverture | 117 |
217. | London, 1802 | 117 |
218. | October, 1803 | 117 |
219. | 'Surprised by joy--impatient as the wind' | 118 |
220-252. | The River Duddon | |
220. I. | ('Not envying shades which haply yet may throw') | 118 |
221. II. | ('Child of the clouds! remote from every taint') | 119 |
222. III. | ('How shall I paint thee?--Be this naked stone') | 119 |
223. IV. | ('Take, cradled nursling of the mountain, take') | 119 |
224. V. | ('Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played') | 120 |
225. VI. | Flowers | 120 |
226. VII. | ('"Change me, some God, into that breathing rose!"') | 121 |
227. VIII. | ('What aspect bore the man who roved or fled') | 121 |
228. IX. | The Stepping-Stones | 121 |
229. X. | The Same Subject | 122 |
230. XI. | The Faery Chasm | 122 |
231. XII. | Hints for the Fancy | 122 |
232. XIII. | Open Prospect | 123 |
233. XIV. | ('O Mountain Stream! the shepherd and his cot') | 123 |
234. XV. | ('From this deep chasm--where quivering sunbeams play') | 124 |
235. XVI. | American Tradition | 124 |
236. XVII. | Return | 124 |
237. XVIII. | Seathwaite Chapel | 125 |
238. XIX. | Tributary Stream | 125 |
239. XX. | The Plain of Donnerdale | 125 |
240. XXI. | ('Whence that low voice?--A whisper from the heart') | 126 |
241. XXII. | Tradition | 126 |
242.
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