sonnet sequence

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sonnet sequence¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

In the dealers’ room, Hippocampus Press — which specializes in Lovecraft and his circle — filled a table with its latest publications, including David E. Schultz’s carefully annotated edition of the nightmarish sonnet sequence “Fungi from Yuggoth.”

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Lowell would graft parts of it onto “The Dolphin,” a sonnet sequence that he published in 1973, chronicling the unresolved tumult of his relations with Hardwick and Blackwood.

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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.”

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Ben Burton asserted that, because Lock has no predecessor in French or Italian, her “Meditation” is both the first sonnet sequence written in the English language and the first sonnet sequence written by a woman in Europe.

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The first sonnet sequence published in English, she said, is Thomas Watson’s “Hekatompathia,” from 1584.

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