The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology | 
 enlarge | Creators: Edward Hirsch, Eavan Boland
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0393058719
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.8142
EAN: 9780393058710
ASIN: 0393058719
Publication Date: March 31, 2008
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An enlightening, celebratory anthology of the most classic and enduring of forms by two major poets.
This illuminating anthology of five and a half centuries of the sonnet follows the form through its various moments and makers. The editors, poets themselves, pay particular attention to the way in which the sonnet thrived or waned over the centuries. They also focus on the way in which individual poets claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened them, shortened them, elaborated on them, and were in turn defined by them. Three sections—"The Sonnet in the Mirror," "The Sonnet Goes to Different Lengths," and "The Sonnet Around the World"—show the extraordinary durability of this form and the ways in which poets have proved ingenious at reinventing it. Along with approximately three hundred sonnets and a "sonnet workshop," the editors pay particular attention to the craft and history of the form following it through its various adventures, right up to its extraordinary resurgence in contemporary poetry.
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 Rated this way for the twentieth century. October 10, 2008
There has been a revival in the sonnet in English-language poetry in recent years, but you'd never guess that from this book, which tends to give the impression that sonnets written after World War II were essentially a curiosity, something one does once or twice.
 Great gift for a talented poet May 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I gave this book as a present to a friend after hearing the authors on the NPR's (WBUR) "On Point", my favorite talk show. She really enjoyed it. I had to test it to make sure that I didn't lose her opinion - whatever it is - of my critical acumen. After sampling it for an hour before presenting it, I found the writers to be bright, engaging, and erudite, and just the list of all the sonnets cited to be worth the price of admission. I will be getting my own copy soon.
The Making of a Sonnet April 20, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Hirsch and Boland have offered wisdom in their own poems and in their writings on poems ...individually. Their teaming to trace the sonnet's history and to provide a sweet gathering of the little songs is stunning. To dance through the centuries on the music of the form is a joy. I love the commentaries. I love the sonnets.
The Perfect Textbook April 8, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Norton anthology of sonnets includes such great sonnet writers as Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Rita Dove. If you define a sonnet as a 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with limited foot substitution to reduce monotony and a definite rhyme scheme, we find that no sonnets were written by poets born after 1928; and very few of the poems in the anthology are sonnets. Perhaps the title of the anthology should have been The Making of an Almost Sonnet. On page 370 we find out that the Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme is abab cdce efef gg? Out of the 510 pages there were 21 outstanding sonnets. The book is politically correct and totally void of any controversial or brilliant accomplishment that would detract from the current crop of poets, so that it would make a perfect textbook for a freshman English Literature class.
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