This document provides an overview of the history and development of the sonnet form. It discusses the origins of the sonnet in Italy, its popularity among English poets like Shakespeare, and how modernists experimented with the traditional form. The document also explores how American, Indian, Russian, and other poets have utilized the sonnet form and introduced new variations. It examines specific poets like Neruda, Derozio, Dutt, and others in their use of sonnets. The document concludes with a brief summary and contact information for the author.

1. A “Sonetto”
for the Poetic
World: A Brief
History of the
Sonnet Form

2. Topics I deal
with in the
book

3. Introduction

4. The sonnet’s
beginnings

5. The great
English
sonneteers.

6. Modernism and its ‘discontents’
in the sonnet world

7. The American and Indian Sonnets.
Samuel Beckett
Pushkin the great and Vikram
Seth.
Derozio
After briefly talking of Edna St.
Vincent Millay and e.e.
cummings we go to or come to
India.
Neruda for lovers. My roseate
sonnet form.
Michael Madhusudan Dutt,
Toru Dutt, Sonnet Mondal to
begin with.

8. The roseate sonnet.
MASTERS ANTHOLOGIES AND FOLLOWERS

9. Newer sonnet forms.
THE MINISON
PHILIP NIKOLAYEV (THE
IMMURED SONNET)
THE DUPLEX

10. Summary

11. Thank You
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