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

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sonnet sequence

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.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 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

“Endpoint” is a perfect sonnet sequence, and as great and weirdly transparent an assessment of dying as the final suite of poems left by a far greater poet, James Merrill, in his own last days.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015

NOTE.—This book is really one poem, and is a development of my sonnet sequence, Persuasion.

From Preludes 1921-1922 by John Drinkwater