Sonnet in the mirror -- Sixteenth century: Sonnet in its century: Sixteenth -- Seventeenth century: Sonnet in its century: Seventeenth -- Eighteenth century: Sonnet in its century: Eighteenth -- Nineteenth century: Sonnet in its century: Nineteenth -- Twentieth century: Sonnet in its century: The twentieth -- Sonnet goes to different lengths -- Sonnet around the world -- Ten questions for a sonnet workshop -- Sonnet under the lamp: History of comments on a form.
So Intricately Is This World Resolved R.A.K. MASON (1905-1971) -- Sonnet of Brotherhood PHYLLIS MCGINLEY (1905-1978) -- View from a Suburban Window ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989) -- Milton: A Sonnet WILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984) -- The Ants LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963) -- Sunday Morning W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973) -- from Sonnets from China XII ("Here war is harmless like a monument") HELENE JOHNSON (1907-1995) -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem A.D. HOPE (1907-2001) -- Pasiphae THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) -- For an Amorous Lady KATHLEEN RAINE (1908-2003) -- Angelus JAMES AGEE (1909-1955) -- from Sonnets ("So it begins. Adam is in his earth") STEPHEN SPENDER (1909-1995.) -- Daybreck MALCOLM LOWRY (1909-1957; -- Christ Walks in This Infernal District Too DOROTHEA TANNING (1910-) -- Report from the Field ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) -- The Prodigal J.V. CUNNINGHAM (1911-1985) -- The Aged Lover Discourses in the Flat Style PAUL GOODMAN (1911-1972) -- from Sonnets, 1 3 ("Foster excellence. If I do not") JOSEPHINE MILES (1911-1985) -- Luncheon 2 KENNETH PATCHEN (1911-1972) -- Religion Is That I Love You DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1913-1966) -- The Beautiful American Word, Sure MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980) -- from Letter to the Front 7 ("To be a Jew in the twentieth century") ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1983) -- Those Winter Sundays GEORGE BARKER (1913-1991) -- To My Mother KARL SHAPIRO (1913-2000) -- Jew DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953) -- "When all my five and country senses see" WELDON KEES (1914-1955) -- For My Daughter JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) -- from Sonnets to Chris ("All we were going strong last night this time") WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993) -- A Stared Story JUDITH WRIGHT (1915-2000) -- Sonnet ("Now let the draughtsman of my eyes be done") GAVIN EWART (1916-1995) -- Sonnet: Afterwards JAMES MCAULEY (1917-1976) -- Piet[...] ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) -- Words for Hart Crane History GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000) -- Gay Chaps at the Bar WILLIAM MEREDITH (1919-) -- The Illiterate AMY CLAMPITT (1920-1994) -- The Cormorant in Its Element GWEN HARWOOD (1920-1995) -- In the Park EDWIN MORGAN (1920-) -- The Coin HOWARD NEMEROV (1920-1991) -- A Primer of the Daily Round GEORGE MACKAY BROWN (1921-1996) -- Chapel Between Cornfield and Shore MARIE PONSOT (1921-) -- Out of Eden RICHARD WILBUR (1921-) -- O PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985) -- Whatever Happened HOWARD MOSS (1922-1987) -- The Snow Weed DONALD DAVIE (1922-1995) -- Jacob's Ladder CONSTANCE URDANG (1922-1996) -- from To Live with a Landscape I ("Take your boulevards, your Locust Street") ALAN ANSEN (1922-2006) -- Tennyson ELIZABETH BREWSTER (1922-) -- Death by Drowning ANTHONY HECHT (1923-2004) -- Naming the Animals DANIEL HOFFMAN (1923-) -- Violence EDGAR BOWERS (1924-2000) -- In the Last Circle JANE COOPER (1924-2007) -- from After the Bomb Tests 1 ("The atom bellies like a cauliflower") DONALD JUSTICE (1925-2004) -- Mrs. Snow The Pupil KENNETH KOCH (1925-2002) -- from Our Hearts 1 ("All hearts should beat when Cho Fu's orchestra plays 'Love'") CAROLYN KIZER (1925-) -- Reunion FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) -- from A City Winter 1 ("I understand the boredom of the clerks") JAMES K. BAXTER (1926-1972) -- from Jerusalem Sonnets 10 ("Dark night-or rather, only the stars") JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) -- Marsyas ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) -- from Two Sonnets I ("I dwelled in Hell on earth to write this rhyme") W.D. SNODGRASS (1926-) -- μητιfinalsigma;...omicronυτιfinalsigma (Not any man...No Man) JOHN ASHBERY (1927-) -- Sonnet ("Each servant stamps the reader with a look") WILLIS BARNSTONE (1927-) -- The Secret Reader GALWAY KINNELL (1927-) -- Blackberry Eating W.S. MERWIN (1927-) -- Sonnet ("Where it begins will remain a question") JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) -- My Grandmother's Ghost R.F. BRISSENDEN (1928-1991) -- Samuel Johnson Talking THOMAS KINSELLA (1928-) -- Wedding Morning PHILIP LEVINE (1928-) -- Llanto ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974) -- To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph BURNS SINGER (1928-1964) -- from Sonnets for a Dying Man XLIX ("The life I die moves through the death I live") THOM GUNN (1929-2004) -- High Fidelity JOHN MONTAGUE (1929-) -- from She Writes 1 ("Dear one, no news from you so long.") ADRIENNE RICH (1929-) -- Final Notations DEREK WALCOTT (1930-) -- Homage to Edward Thomas RUTH FAINLIGHT (1931-) -- High Pressure Zone SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) -- Conversation Among the Ruins GEOFFREY HILL (1932-) -- Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings C.K. STEAD (1932-) -- from Twenty-two Sonnets 16 ("Xuan Lot Danang fallen, we wait for the fall of Saigon.") STEPHEN BERG (1934-) -- My Bohemian Life WENDELL BERRY (1934-) -- The Venus of Botticelli MARK STRAND (1934-) -- One Winter Night SANDRA GILBERT (1936-) -- October 29, 1991: 4 PM, outside Saratoga Springs JUNE JORDAN (1936-) -- Sunflower Sonnet Number Two FREDERICK SEIDEL (1936-) -- Robert Kennedy C.K. WILLIAMS (1936-) -- The Doe ALICIA OSTRIKER (1937-) -- Sonnet. To Tell the Truth LES MURRAY (1938-) -- Performance CHARLES SIMIC (1938-) -- History FRANK BIDART (1939-) -- Self-Portrait, 1969 KENNETH FIELDS (1939-) -- Poetic SEAMUS HEANEY (1939-) -- Fireside Requiem for the Croppies MICHAEL LONGLEY (1939-) -- Ceasefire BILL KNOTT (1940-) -- Suicidal (or Simply Drunken) Thoughts on Being Refused a Guggenheim Grant for the 11th Time ROBERT PINSKY (1940-) -- Sonnet ("Afternoon sun on her back") TOM CLARK (1941-) -- Sonnet ("Five A.M. on East Fourteenth I'm out to eat") DEREK MAHON (1941-) -- Grandfather ELIZABETH SMITHER (1941-) -- Visiting Juliet Street MARILYN HACKER (1942-) -- Fourteen
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