Sonnet Sequence - Notable Later Sequences

Notable Later Sequences

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the sonnet sequence returned to favour, although with a greater variety of subject matter.

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese (pubd. 1850, 44 sonnets to Robert Browning)
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House of Life (1870, 1881, 101 sonnets)
  • George Meredith's Modern Love (1862, 50 sixteen-line sonnets)
  • H. P. Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth (1930)
  • John Berryman's Sonnets to Chris (1947, published 1967)
  • Robert Lowell's Notebook (1969), revised and expanded into the three volumes History (1973), For Lizzie and Harriet (1973) and The Dolphin (1973).
  • William Wenthe's The Mysteries (pubd. 2004, 11 sonnets)

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