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Sonnets of This Century

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This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It contains 270 poems by 126 different authors, ranging from the most celebrated poets, like Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth to some who are extremely obscure. Sharp outlines the purpose of the collection as follows: "For the concise expression of an isolated poetic thought an intellectual or sensuous wave keenly felt, emotionally and rhythmically the sonnet would seem to be the best medium. To bring this more clearly home to the mind of the reader unacquainted with the true scope of our sonnet-literature and of the technique of the sonnet itself, and to illustrate its development and capacity, is the aim of this collection."
- Summary by Algy Pug (5 hr 15 min)

Chapters

Dedication by William Sharp

2:52

Read by Algy Pug

Easter Eve by Henry Alford

1:08

Read by Larry Wilson

Three Sonnets by William Allingham

3:50

Read by Suzanne Carol

Three Sonnets by by Matthew Arnold

3:44

Read by Alan Mapstone

Four sonnets by Alfred Austin

4:42

Read by Adrian Stephens

Old Year Leaves by Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell

1:02

Read by dwmillican

Love's Depth by Louisa S. Bevington

1:08

Read by Stunning

Wishes of Youth by Samuel Laman Blanchard

1:16

Read by Michele Fry

Three sonnets by Mathilde Blind

3:24

Read by Adrian Stephens

Five sonnets by Wilfrid Scrawen Blunt

5:07

Read by Adrian Stephens

Ostend by William Lisle Bowles

1:03

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi

Omnia Mutantur by Erasmus Henry Brodie

1:04

Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi

Requiescant by Oliver Madox Brown

1:25

Read by Alan Mapstone

Five sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4:37

Read by Larry Wilson

Two sonnets by Robert Browning

2:51

Read by Alan Mapstone

Two sonnets by Robert Buchanan

2:14

Read by Adrian Stephens

On Echo and Silence by Samuel Egerton Brydges

1:18

Read by ashley2786

Chillon by Lord Byron

1:27

Read by Alan Mapstone

Two sonnets by Hall Caine

2:44

Read by Bob Gonzalez

The Haunted Shore by Wathen Marks Wilks Call

1:16

Read by ashley2786

The First Sight of Spring by John Clare

1:22

Read by Alan Mapstone

Two sonnets by Herbert E. Clarke

2:26

Read by BenjHartin

Five sonnets by Hartley Coleridge

5:40

Read by MoonLylith

Nature by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1:18

Read by Algy Pug

Phantasmion's Quest of Iarine by Sara Coleridge

1:22

Read by Stunning

Cleopatra by Bessie Craigmyle

1:25

Read by Alan Mapstone

Guns of Peace by Dinah Maria Craik

1:35

Read by Alan Mapstone

Three sonnets by Sir Aubrey (Hunt) de Vere

3:22

Read by Adrian Stephens

Five sonnets by Aubrey Thomas de Vere

5:32

Read by Adrian Stephens

Humanity by Richard Watson Dixon

1:17

Read by De Anna Lee

Three sonnets by Sydney Thompson Dobell

3:45

Read by Alan Mapstone

Don Quixote by Henry Austin Dobson

1:28

Read by Alan Mapstone

Two sonnets by Thomas Doubleday

2:11

Read by Stunning

Five sonnets by Edward Dowden

5:37

Read by Scotty Smith

Rest by John Charles Earle

1:18

Read by Stunning

Fountains Abbey by Ebenezer Elliott

1:20

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Silence by Joseph Ellis

1:23

Read by Algy Pug

Three sonnets by Henry Ellison

3:19

Read by Alicia Wellman

Two sonnets by Frederick William Faber

2:01

Read by Duchess1353

Ad Matrem by Julian Henry Charles Fane

1:15

Read by Gloria Loughry

In Prospect of Death by William Freeland

1:18

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Two sonnets by Richard Garnett

2:15

Read by Algy Pug

Intra Muros by Mary Clarissa Gillington

1:34

Read by mjgeronimo

Three sonnets by Edmund William Gosse

3:15

Read by ToddHW

Two sonnets by David Gray

2:20

Read by Algy Pug

Venus Urania by Thomas Gordon Hake

1:10

Read by TCraven

Written in Edinburgh by Arthur Henry Hallam

1:25

Read by Alan Mapstone

Four sonnets by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

4:14

Read by Winnifred Assmann

Two sonnets by Sir William Rowan Hamilton

2:10

Read by Stunning

Two sonnets by John Hanmer

2:14

Read by Winnifred Assmann

Pater Vester Pascit Illa by Robert Stephen Hawker

1:19

Read by Algy Pug

Truth and Beauty by John Hogben

1:16

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Night by Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes

1:18

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Two sonnets by Thomas Hood

2:07

Read by Lee Vogler

The Times to Come by Charles A. Houfe

1:12

Read by Algy Pug

Happiness by Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

1:06

Read by chrisHarrington1969

Two sonnets by Leigh Hunt

2:44

Read by Alan Mapstone

One Dead by John William Inchbold

1:19

Read by GMGDave

An Ancient Chess King by Jean Ingelow

1:25

Read by Alan Mapstone

High Summer by Ebenezer Jones

1:14

Read by BMabie

Six Sonnets by John Keats

5:39

Read by Cynthia Malone

Art Thou already Weary of the Way by Frances Anne Kemble

1:22

Read by Michele Fry

Love's Martyrdom by Joseph Knight

1:06

Read by DimbleB

Two sonnets by Andrew Lang

2:06

Read by Algy Pug

Four sonnets by Edward Cracroft Lefroy

4:10

Read by jrwhalen

Love Death and Time by Frederick Locker-Lampson

1:24

Read by Stunning

Evening by Robert, Earl of Lytton

1:17

Read by Algy Pug

Six sonnets by Philip Bourke Marston

6:20

Read by SoundsLikeJack

Two sonnets by John Westland Marston

2:26

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Lucifer in Starlight by George Meredith

1:15

Read by Algy Pug

Three sonnets by Alice Meynell

3:14

Read by Winnifred Assmann

Life and Death by William Cosmo Monkhouse

1:28

Read by Alan Mapstone

Three sonnets by Ernest James Myers

3:16

Read by Stunning

Three sonnets by Frederic William Henry Myers

3:05

Read by Stunning

Pessimism by Edith Nesbit

1:17

Read by Winnifred Assmann

Substance and Shadow by John Henry Newman

1:29

Read by Alan Mapstone

Two sonnets by John Nichol

2:14

Read by Algy Pug

Two sonnets by James Ashcroft Noble

2:41

Read by Algy Pug

The Rainbow by Edward Henry Noel

1:10

Read by ashley2786

By the Sea by Roden Noel

1:11

Read by ashley2786

In Memory of F C C by Sir Francis Palgrave

1:12

Read by Larry Wilson

Timor Mortis Conturbat Me by Joseph Noel Paton

1:29

Read by Alan Mapstone

Three sonnets by John Payne

3:28

Read by Algy Pug

Four sonnets by Emily Pfeiffer

4:58

Read by mjgeronimo

Two sonnets by Bryan Waller Procter

2:37

Read by MoonLylith

Two sonnets by Marc-André Raffalovich

2:34

Read by MoonLylith

The Student's Chamber by Ernest Percival Rhys

1:34

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Potato Harvest by Charles George Douglas Roberts

1:34

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Lost Ideal of the World by Eric Sutherland Robertson

1:16

Read by Algy Pug

Three sonnets by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson

4:18

Read by mjgeronimo

Three sonnets by William Caldwell Roscoe

3:01

Read by dc

The Harvest Moon by William Stanley Roscoe

1:07

Read by Larry Wilson

Five sonnets by Christina Rossetti

5:10

Read by De Anna Lee

12 sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

11:24

Read by Larry Wilson

Two sonnets by William Michael Rossetti

2:27

Read by Algy Pug

At Lemnos by Thomas O'Neill Russell

1:29

Read by Alan Mapstone

Six sonnets by William Bell Scott

6:02

Read by SoundsLikeJack

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

1:21

Read by Algy Pug

A Chill in Summer by George Augusta Simcox

1:16

Read by Elizabeth Copnall

Beauty by Alexander Smith

1:04

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

Winter by Robert Southey

1:01

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

The Touch of Life by Robert Louis Stevenson

1:23

Read by Alan Mapstone

Two sonnets by Charles Strong

2:06

Read by dc

Five sonnets by Algernon Charles Swinburne

4:56

Read by Larry Wilson

Six sonnets by John Addington Symons

7:40

Read by MoonLylith

Two sonnets by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:38

Read by Alan Mapstone

A Recusant by James Thomson

1:22

Read by Alan Mapstone

Forgetfulness by R. A. Thorpe

1:03

Read by nes166

Two sonnets by Lord Thurlow

2:16

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Three sonnets by John Todhunter

3:26

Read by Bruce Kachuk

The Heart's Sacredness by Richard Chenevix Trench

1:14

Read by Algy Pug

In Memoriam - Richard Chenevix Trench by Frederic Herbert Trench

1:21

Read by Algy Pug

Five Sonnets by Charles Tennyson Turner

5:19

Read by Adrian Stephens

Two sonnets by Samuel Waddington

2:33

Read by Adrian Stephens

Two sonnets by William Watson

2:15

Read by Adrian Stephens

Six Sonnets by Theodore Watts-Dunton

6:48

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Brook Rhine by Augusta Webster

1:16

Read by Bruce Kachuk

To Night by Joseph Blanco White

1:18

Read by Bruce Kachuk

What art Thou by Henry Kirke White

1:19

Read by Bruce Kachuk

As Yonder Lamp by Charles Whitehead

1:23

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Time and Death by William Henry Whitworth

1:27

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Libertatis Sacra Fames by Oscar Wlde

1:22

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Evening Cloud by John Wilson

1:14

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Frosted Trees by Richard Wilton

1:15

Read by Bruce Kachuk

Two sonnets by James Chapman Woods

2:12

Read by Larry Wilson

Thirteen Sonnets by William Wordsworth

14:01

Read by Aaron Zimmerman