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

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

“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

The story of the long and desperate courtship of his second love, Elizabeth, whom he wedded in 1594, is told in the Amoretti, a sonnet sequence full of passion and tenderness.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund