On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration

ISBN-13: 9781474221580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 112 str.

Hannah Crawforth; Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Opis

In the four hundred years since Shakespeare's death, the Sonnets have invited imitation, homage, critique, parody and pastiche. These new poems probe our relationship to the Sonnets' intricate form and ambitious scope, their investigation of sexuality, wit, memory and poetic survival. These sonnets and longer lyrics explore what it means to write 'on Shakespeare's Sonnets' in the 21st century.
Published in association with the Royal Society of Literature contributing poets include: Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, Roger McGough and Jo Shapcott.

Recenzje

These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... [I]t really is extraordinary that these sonnets, first published in 1609, can still be engendering such a range of new ideas and ways of expressing them. Congratulations to the editors Hannah Crawforth and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. The Independent 20160215

Spis treści

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements What poverty my Muse brings forth;Roger McGough Sonnet 1; William Shakespeare Senex on Market Street; Douglas Dunn Sonnet 11; William Shakespeare Thirty-Five; Jackie Kay Sonnet 12; William Shakespeare Rhapsodies; Andrew Motion Sonnet 15; William Shakespeare Sonnet 15: A Graft; Paul Muldoon Sonnet 18; William Shakespeare Dream; P. J. Kavanagh Sonnet 20; William Shakespeare Di-Di-Dah-Dah-Di-Dit; Simon Armitage Sonnet 22; William Shakespeare Sonnet; Wendy Cope Sonnet 33; William Shakespeare Hearing Voices; Mimi Khalvati Sonnet 35; William Shakespeare Peacemaker; Michael Symmons Roberts Sonnet 36; William Shakespeare Two; Don Patterson Sonnet 38; William Shakespeare After Sonnet 38; Nick Laird Sonnet 43; William Shakespeare The Trick; Imtiaz Dharker Sonnet 49; William Shakespeare At the Halle; Bernard O'Donoghue Sonnet 55; William Shakespeare The Sonnets; Michael Longley Sonnet 60; William Shakespeare Time's Fool; Kevin Crossley-Holland Your Life as a Wave; Ruth Padel Sonnet 65; William Shakespeare Storm, Nissaki; Robin Robertson Two Sonnets; Alan Brownjohn Sonnet 71; William Shakespeare Still Life; John Burnside Sonnet 73; William Shakespeare 73 Shakespeare Close; David Harsent 2014/2015; Jo Shapcott Sonnet 80; William Shakespeare Salvage; Alan Jenkins Sonnet 94; William Shakespeare Three Views of a Secret; Sean O'Brien Sonnet 99; William Shakespeare Gentian Violet; Paul Farley Sonnet 116; William Shakespeare Magnetism; Gillian Clarke CXVI; Carol Ann Duffy Betrayal; Elaine Feinstein Sonnet 143; William Shakespeare Drowned Man; Fiona Sampson W.S.: The Tithon Sonnets; John Fuller List of Contributors and Notes to Poems Index of Poets Index of First Lines

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Hannah Crawforth is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at King's College London, where her research is primarily concerned with the under-examined political, religious and literary implications of the history of the English language as it was studied in the Renaissance. She is also one of the four faculty members comprising the London Shakespeare Centre, launched at King's in 2009, currently working on several collaborative projects.