sonnet sequence

American  

noun

1. a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.

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Etymology

Origin of sonnet sequence

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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sonnet sequence

He made more anthologies, translated “Beowulf,” and named a sonnet sequence for a London-tube line, “District and Circle,” merging English urbanity with rural Irish memory and melody: “Tunes from a tin whistle underground.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019

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

To serve their purpose, and then, if it must be, to be forgotten, or—wild hope—to be embalmed in a sonnet sequence: that was reward enough.

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard