Scanty Plot of Ground
A Book of Sonnets
$26.39
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2026
Summary
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 E…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571373444 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571373445 |
| Author: | Paul Muldoon |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 147mm x 207mm |
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Critics Review
“A welcome primer on an always relevant poetic form.”–Publishers Weekly
”[An] excellent new anthology of sonnets.”–Times Literary Supplement
“To describe Paul Muldoon’s influence on contemporary poetry is like trying to assess the influence of The Beatles on post-war music: it’s to be seen and heard in the work of almost every British and Irish poet since the 1970’s.”–Irish Post
“Ireland’s greatest living poet.”–RTÉ
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon has won many awards for his poetry including the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has lived since 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
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