Century of Sonnets

A Century of Sonnets is a striking reminder that some of the best known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets. It presents the broad and rich context of such favorites as Percy Bysshe Shelley''s "Ozymanidas," John Keats''s "On First Looking Into Chapman''s Homer," and William Wordsworth''s "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" by tracing the sonnet revival in England from its...