Rhetoric and rhythm in twentieth-century sonnets by Hopkins, Auden, Frost, Cummings, Thomas, and Merrill Moore.

Far from being a fixed, artificial form, the sonnet is a generic type of lyric poem capable of flexible but balanced perfect lyrical expression of a single thought or emotion, encompassing within a few lines both a comprehensive and a particular view. This dissertation has explored the sonnet's...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Turpin, Elizabeth Rice
Other Authors:	Archer, Stanley L. (degree committee member.)
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[College Station, Tex.] 1972.
Subjects:	Major English. Academic theses
Online Access:	Link to ProQuest copy Link to OAKTrust copy