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Jochen Petzold: A History of the Sonnet in England: “A little world made cunningly”. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2021.

This whistle-stop tour of the history of the sonnet in England – not, it should be noted, of the sonnet in English; the study rarely strays beyond the geographical boundaries of the United Kingdom – follows, for the most part, a very familiar itinerary. Beginning with the emergence of the form in medieval Italy, it retells the story of the sonnet’s adoption, naturalization, development, neglect, and revival, ending with some observations on its continuing presence in contemporary poetry. The sense of familiarity is reinforced by the fact that the study relies heavily on existing secondary material rather than on primary research. It is not until Petzold gets to the early twentieth century, and is forced to construct his own narrative, that a new and slightly different picture begins to emerge, highlighting the connection between the form and the experience of war and conflict.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1866-5381.2022.02.29
Lizenz: ESV-Lizenz
ISSN: 1866-5381
Ausgabe / Jahr: 2 / 2022
Veröffentlicht: 2022-11-24
Dokument Jochen Petzold: A History of the Sonnet in England: “A little world made cunningly”. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2021.