Sonnet

Stephen Regan is Professor of English at Durham University, where he is also Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. He served as Head of Department at Durham from 2008 to 2011, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University from 2011 to 2012. His publications include Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2004) and an edition of Esther Waters by the Irish novelist, GeorgeMoore (Oxford University Press, 2012). His essays on modern poetry have appeared in The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (2008), and The OxfordHandbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012). He is co-editor, with Andrew Motion, of the Penguin Book of Elegy.

• Introduction; 1. The Renaissance; 2. Shakespeare; 3. Milton; 4. The Romantic Revival of the Sonnet; 5. Victorian Sonnet Sequences; 6. The Irish Sonnet; 7. The American Sonnet; 8. The Modern Sonnet; Conclusion