The Sonnet

The sonnet is the English language poetry’s most enduring form. This course will trace its rich history: beginning in the sixteenth century with Wyatt and Surrey, and a backwards glance to the form’s Italian origins, we will consider the sequences of Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare, the innovations of Donne and Milton, and the sonnet’s various Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist incarnations, with a sidelong glance at other European traditions, before examining its diverse and seemingly endless re-inventions in the later stages of the twentieth century.

Stephen Grace BA MA

• Term: Summer
• Day: Monday
• Start Date: 15 April 2019
• Time: 7-9pm
• No. of weeks: 10
• Course fee: £78.00

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