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

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

The bad news strikes in a long sonnet sequence, “Endpoint,” already in progress.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2015

These were written when I was twenty and twenty-one years of age, and the sonnet sequence of 'A Lover's Diary' was begun when I was twenty- three.

From A Lover's Diary, Volume 1. by Parker, Gilbert