Presentation on the book A Sonetto for the Poetic World/A Brief History of the Sonnet Form.

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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