The English Sonnet

by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

A collection of sonnets, some with an accompanying critique. There are many different ideas proposed as to the definition of 'what is poetry'.Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Book 1: The Sonnet. The Sonnet Sonnet Legislation Sequences and Subject Matter Book 2: The Sonneteers Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Minor Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Sir Philip Sidney Michael Drayton Edmund Spenser William Shakespeare John Milton John Keats William Wordsworth Contemporary

Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was born in Leeds on July 21, 1865. He was among the most acerbic men of letters and journalists of his lifetime. An anti-Scottish Tory and Monarchist, a Methodist, Crosland earned his living as a Fleet Street reviewer, critic, and editor for journals like The Outlook, The Academy, and the Penny Illustrated Paper. A close friend of Lord Alfred Douglas, Crosland was notorious for his bitter attack on the Oscar Wilde who wrote De Profundis. His poems, in volumes such as Sonnets (1912), War Poems by X (1916), and Collected Poems (1917), reveal sympathy for the downtrodden, the English soldier, and the sick. A sufferer from diabetes and heart ailments for much of his middle age, he died on December 23, 1924, and was buried in the Finchley and St Mary-le-Bone Cemetery, London.