101 SONNETS

Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was import
ed from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inex
haustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from
Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an adept of the form, has de
vised an anthology that is both a sharing of personal favourites and a celebrati
on of high moments in the sonnet's history.



His introduction and wonderfully
insightful notes provide a history and commentary that will prove illuminating t
o the casual reader and indispensable to the student or aspiring sonneteer.