sonnet sequence
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sonnet sequence
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Kevin: I think, Kyrei, her book is sort of a lament a sonnet sequence about the influenza epidemic in 1919.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2018
Faith and doubt — in love, in God — course through Ford’s powerful fourth book, anchored by a long sonnet sequence about the end of a marriage.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2018
Grieving her mother’s illness and death, she turned to Heaney’s sonnet sequence “Clearances,” written in memory of his own mother, pausing over the mysterious last lines: “A soul ramifying and forever/Silent, beyond silence listened for.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
The bad news strikes in a long sonnet sequence, “Endpoint,” already in progress.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015
That sonnet sequence was really a remarkable thing for a lad of twenty to write.
From Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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