Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets

Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets - Hardcover

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Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets - Hardcover

Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets - Hardcover

by Paul Muldoon
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Book Overview

An essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling verse form.

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the "durability" of the sonnet is its "very specific duration." It is the perfect length for what Dante Gabriel Rossetti described as "a moment's monument" or William Wordsworth as a "scanty plot of ground" offering "brief solace" for those who "have felt the weight of too much liberty."

Among the poets included in this centuries-spanning edition are Elizabeth Bishop, Wanda Coleman, John Donne, Terrance Hayes, John Keats, Claude McKay, Edna St Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Patricia Smith and W. B. Yeats. There are also translations by Muldoon of sonnets by Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and César Vallejo, as well as the duo of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.
ISBN9780571373444
Author Paul Muldoon
PublisherFaber & Faber
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedNovember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages150
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty years. He is the author of more than a dozen previous collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; Selected Poems 1968-2014; and Howdie-Skelp.

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