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