{"product_id":"the-oxford-book-of-sonnets","title":"The Oxford Book of Sonnets","description":"Alive and well after 450 years in English  the 14-line sonnet is perhaps the best-loved and most versatile of poetic forms. Poets ranging from Shakespeare to Alice Oswald have found it the perfect choice for the expression of intense but controlled feelings. Beginning with Wyatt and ending in the present day The Oxford Book of Sonnets is a unique treasury of memorable sonnet reflections on love and life. In a beautiful one-poem-per-page design  Shakespeares marriage of true minds rubs shoulders with John Davies of Herefrods the late ABC of love  Keats stout Cortez with Darleys Manrique. Women poets who revived the sonnet in eighteenth century are restored to prominence  and modern poets as diverse as Seamus Heaney  Carol Ann Duffy  and Simon Armitage are well represented. After an expository introduction that traces the sonnet in English from its appearance in the Tudor Court of the sixteenth century through its various historical reinterpretations and eras of popularity  328 sonnets are arranged in order of the birth date of the poets. Thus  readers have a formidable guide to both the evolution of sonnet writing in English and the distinct voices of major and minor poets that have accepted the forms challenges and expressive power. This book also includes examples of the sonnet sequence as well as more unusual experimentation with form such as Sylvesters quadruple acrostic sonnets to his patron and Leigh Hunts Iterating Sonnet. In addition to the aforementioned poets  this collection includes sterling works by Sir Philip Sidney  George Chapman  John Donne  Lady Mary Wroth  George Herbert  John Milton  Aphra Behn  William Wordsworth  Samuel Taylor Coleridge  Percy Bysshe Shelley  Alfred  Lord Tennyson  Robert Browning  Matthew Arnold  Dante Gabriel Rossetti  Christina Rossetti  Thomas Hardy  Gerard Manley Hopkins  Oscar Wilde  William Butler Yeats  Robert Frost  Siegrfried Sassoon  Edna St Vincent Millay  Aldous Huxley  Dylan Thomas  Derek Walcott  Seamus Heaney  and many more.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44790520447029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0192142674","price":62.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0192142674_ddf5e829-27bf-4b91-9f72-1a20897aa181.jpg?v=1765271993","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-book-of-sonnets","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}