Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets by Paul Muldoon

Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets

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Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets

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Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets

by Paul Muldoon

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An essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling verse form.

In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the "durability" of the sonnet is its "very specific duration." It is the perfect length for what Dante Gabriel Rossetti described as "a moment's monument" or William Wordsworth as a "scanty plot of ground" offering "brief solace" for those who "have felt the weight of too much liberty."

Among the poets included in this centuries-spanning edition are Elizabeth Bishop, Wanda Coleman, John Donne, Terrance Hayes, John Keats, Claude McKay, Edna St Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Patricia Smith and W. B. Yeats. There are also translations by Muldoon of sonnets by Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and César Vallejo, as well as the duo of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.
Book Details
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
ISBN:
9780571373444
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
150
Authors:
Paul Muldoon
Published Date:
2025-11-18
Language:
English
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About Paul Muldoon

Born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated at Queen's University, Belfast, Paul Muldoon is the author of many collections, including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), Howdie-Skelp (Faber & Faber, 2021), and Moy Sand and Gravel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990, the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1994, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2017. Muldoon served as poetry editor of The New Yorker from 2007 to 2017 and as Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. He is Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

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