Sonnets of This Century
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126 chapters · 5 h 16 min · English
Read by Algy Pug, Larry Wilson, Suzanne Carol, Alan Mapstone, Adrian Stephens, dwmillican and others
Sonnets
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This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It contains 270 poems by 126 different authors, ranging from the most celebrated poets, like Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth to some who are extremely obscure. Sharp outlines the purpose of the collection as follows: "For the concise expression of an isolated poetic thought an intellectual or sensuous wave keenly felt, emotionally and rhythmically the sonnet would seem to be the best medium. To bring this more clearly home to the mind of the reader unacquainted with the true scope of our sonnet-literature and of the technique of the sonnet itself, and to illustrate its development and capacity, is the aim of this collection."
- Summary by Algy Pug
Chapters
1 Dedication by William Sharp 3 min 2 Easter Eve by Henry Alford 1 min 3 Three Sonnets by William Allingham 4 min 4 Three Sonnets by by Matthew Arnold 4 min 5 Four sonnets by Alfred Austin 5 min 6 Old Year Leaves by Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell 1 min 7 Love's Depth by Louisa S. Bevington 1 min 8 Wishes of Youth by Samuel Laman Blanchard 1 min 9 Three sonnets by Mathilde Blind 3 min 10 Five sonnets by Wilfrid Scrawen Blunt 5 min 11 Ostend by William Lisle Bowles 1 min 12 Omnia Mutantur by Erasmus Henry Brodie 1 min 13 Requiescant by Oliver Madox Brown 1 min 14 Five sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5 min 15 Two sonnets by Robert Browning 3 min 16 Two sonnets by Robert Buchanan 2 min 17 On Echo and Silence by Samuel Egerton Brydges 1 min 18 Chillon by Lord Byron 1 min 19 Two sonnets by Hall Caine 3 min 20 The Haunted Shore by Wathen Marks Wilks Call 1 min 21 The First Sight of Spring by John Clare 1 min 22 Two sonnets by Herbert E. Clarke 2 min 23 Five sonnets by Hartley Coleridge 6 min 24 Nature by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 25 Phantasmion's Quest of Iarine by Sara Coleridge 1 min 26 Cleopatra by Bessie Craigmyle 1 min 27 Guns of Peace by Dinah Maria Craik 2 min 28 Three sonnets by Sir Aubrey (Hunt) de Vere 3 min 29 Five sonnets by Aubrey Thomas de Vere 6 min 30 Humanity by Richard Watson Dixon 1 min 31 Three sonnets by Sydney Thompson Dobell 4 min 32 Don Quixote by Henry Austin Dobson 1 min 33 Two sonnets by Thomas Doubleday 2 min 34 Five sonnets by Edward Dowden 6 min 35 Rest by John Charles Earle 1 min 36 Fountains Abbey by Ebenezer Elliott 1 min 37 Silence by Joseph Ellis 1 min 38 Three sonnets by Henry Ellison 3 min 39 Two sonnets by Frederick William Faber 2 min 40 Ad Matrem by Julian Henry Charles Fane 1 min 41 In Prospect of Death by William Freeland 1 min 42 Two sonnets by Richard Garnett 2 min 43 Intra Muros by Mary Clarissa Gillington 2 min 44 Three sonnets by Edmund William Gosse 3 min 45 Two sonnets by David Gray 2 min 46 Venus Urania by Thomas Gordon Hake 1 min 47 Written in Edinburgh by Arthur Henry Hallam 1 min 48 Four sonnets by Eugene Lee-Hamilton 4 min 49 Two sonnets by Sir William Rowan Hamilton 2 min 50 Two sonnets by John Hanmer 2 min 51 Pater Vester Pascit Illa by Robert Stephen Hawker 1 min 52 Truth and Beauty by John Hogben 1 min 53 Night by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes 1 min 54 Two sonnets by Thomas Hood 2 min 55 The Times to Come by Charles A. Houfe 1 min 56 Happiness by Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton 1 min 57 Two sonnets by Leigh Hunt 3 min 58 One Dead by John William Inchbold 1 min 59 An Ancient Chess King by Jean Ingelow 1 min 60 High Summer by Ebenezer Jones 1 min 61 Six Sonnets by John Keats 6 min 62 Art Thou already Weary of the Way by Frances Anne Kemble 1 min 63 Love's Martyrdom by Joseph Knight 1 min 64 Two sonnets by Andrew Lang 2 min 65 Four sonnets by Edward Cracroft Lefroy 4 min 66 Love Death and Time by Frederick Locker-Lampson 1 min 67 Evening by Robert, Earl of Lytton 1 min 68 Six sonnets by Philip Bourke Marston 6 min 69 Two sonnets by John Westland Marston 2 min 70 Lucifer in Starlight by George Meredith 1 min 71 Three sonnets by Alice Meynell 3 min 72 Life and Death by William Cosmo Monkhouse 1 min 73 Three sonnets by Ernest James Myers 3 min 74 Three sonnets by Frederic William Henry Myers 3 min 75 Pessimism by Edith Nesbit 1 min 76 Substance and Shadow by John Henry Newman 1 min 77 Two sonnets by John Nichol 2 min 78 Two sonnets by James Ashcroft Noble 3 min 79 The Rainbow by Edward Henry Noel 1 min 80 By the Sea by Roden Noel 1 min 81 In Memory of F C C by Sir Francis Palgrave 1 min 82 Timor Mortis Conturbat Me by Joseph Noel Paton 1 min 83 Three sonnets by John Payne 3 min 84 Four sonnets by Emily Pfeiffer 5 min 85 Two sonnets by Bryan Waller Procter 3 min 86 Two sonnets by Marc-André Raffalovich 3 min 87 The Student's Chamber by Ernest Percival Rhys 2 min 88 The Potato Harvest by Charles George Douglas Roberts 2 min 89 The Lost Ideal of the World by Eric Sutherland Robertson 1 min 90 Three sonnets by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson 4 min 91 Three sonnets by William Caldwell Roscoe 3 min 92 The Harvest Moon by William Stanley Roscoe 1 min 93 Five sonnets by Christina Rossetti 5 min 94 12 sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 11 min 95 Two sonnets by William Michael Rossetti 2 min 96 At Lemnos by Thomas O'Neill Russell 1 min 97 Six sonnets by William Bell Scott 6 min 98 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 min 99 A Chill in Summer by George Augusta Simcox 1 min 100 Beauty by Alexander Smith 1 min 101 Winter by Robert Southey 1 min 102 The Touch of Life by Robert Louis Stevenson 1 min 103 Two sonnets by Charles Strong 2 min 104 Five sonnets by Algernon Charles Swinburne 5 min 105 Six sonnets by John Addington Symons 8 min 106 Two sonnets by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3 min 107 A Recusant by James Thomson 1 min 108 Forgetfulness by R. A. Thorpe 1 min 109 Two sonnets by Lord Thurlow 2 min 110 Three sonnets by John Todhunter 3 min 111 The Heart's Sacredness by Richard Chenevix Trench 1 min 112 In Memoriam - Richard Chenevix Trench by Frederic Herbert Trench 1 min 113 Five Sonnets by Charles Tennyson Turner 5 min 114 Two sonnets by Samuel Waddington 3 min 115 Two sonnets by William Watson 2 min 116 Six Sonnets by Theodore Watts-Dunton 7 min 117 The Brook Rhine by Augusta Webster 1 min 118 To Night by Joseph Blanco White 1 min 119 What art Thou by Henry Kirke White 1 min 120 As Yonder Lamp by Charles Whitehead 1 min 121 Time and Death by William Henry Whitworth 1 min 122 Libertatis Sacra Fames by Oscar Wlde 1 min 123 The Evening Cloud by John Wilson 1 min 124 Frosted Trees by Richard Wilton 1 min 125 Two sonnets by James Chapman Woods 2 min 126 Thirteen Sonnets by William Wordsworth 14 min
