A Century of Sonnets : The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850

"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 favourites as Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and William Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" by tracing the sonnet revival in England from its beginning in the hands of Thomas Edwards and Charlotte Smith to its culmination in the poetry of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.