101 Sonnets

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title 101 Sonnets
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Don Paterson
Edited by Don Paterson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 125
Category/GenrePoetry anthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9780571278732
ClassificationsDewey:808.8142
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 1 March 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has devised an anthology that is both a sharing of personal favourites and a celebration of high moments in the sonnet's history. His introduction and wonderfully insightful notes provide a history and commentary that will prove illuminating to the casual reader and indispensable to the student or aspiring sonneteer.

Author Biography

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He is the author of Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize - and Landing Light, which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Rain, his most recent collection, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2009, the same year that he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Find out more about Don Paterson at www.donpaterson.com