The Art of the Sonnet

The Art of the Sonnet
Edited by Stephen Burt and David Mikics
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
$35.00
HARDCOVER
ISBN 9780674048140

The Art of the Sonnet collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems. The commentaries by Stephen Burt and David Mikics offer new perspectives and insights, and, taken together, demonstrate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to some of the most-celebrated sonnets in English as well as less-well-known gems by nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets.