What is Sonnet Sequence?
It is interesting topic to know what a sonnet sequence is. It means a cluster of sonnets, as the term suggests, arranged in an order. The authors of Elizabethan age attempted to group such sonnets together into a sequence of similar themes. Edmund Spenser wrote such sequence of sonnet called Amoretti (1595).
If you make your reading deeper, you will notice that William Wordsworth’s The River Duddon, D. G. Rossetti’s House of Life, William Ellery Leonard’s Two lives are some of the fine examples of sonnet cycle or sequence. Moreover, George Meredith’s Modern Love (1862) which deals with unhappy marriage, is sometimes referred to as sonnet sequence despite its sixteen lines form.
In modern times, Dylan Thomas’s Altarwise by Owl-light (1936) is a beautiful example of such sequence of ten sonnets dealing with meditations on poet’s life.
If you make your reading deeper, you will notice that William Wordsworth’s The River Duddon, D. G. Rossetti’s House of Life, William Ellery Leonard’s Two lives are some of the fine examples of sonnet cycle or sequence. Moreover, George Meredith’s Modern Love (1862) which deals with unhappy marriage, is sometimes referred to as sonnet sequence despite its sixteen lines form.
In modern times, Dylan Thomas’s Altarwise by Owl-light (1936) is a beautiful example of such sequence of ten sonnets dealing with meditations on poet’s life.
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