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Article: The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Phillis Levin, editor. Penguin Books. [pounds sterling]9.99. 222 pages. ISBN 0-713-99529-7. The sonnet, with its obligatory fourteen lines and set structure (Italian or English), began in Sicily at the court of Frederick II in the thirteenth century. It only arrived in England in the early sixteenth century but since that time it has been a standard strain in English verse. This anthology, the editor tells us in her short ...