Sonnets

“A sonnet is a moment’s monument,” said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection - whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair or celebration - reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight and experience can be concentrated into a mere fourteen lines. Here are classics such as Milton’s “On His Blindness”, Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” and Frost’s “The Oven Bird”, juxtaposed with the mischievous wit of Rupert Brooke’s “Sonnet Reverse…