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

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

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019

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

Indeed, of the many forms that the book glancingly resembles, one is the sonnet sequence.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2015

And then, in the great sonnet sequence of Du Bellay—Les Antiquités de Rome—we hear a splendid sound unknown before in French poetry—the sonorous boom of proud and pompous verse.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton