The English Strain

by Robert Sheppard

'Enraptured by the versioning bug, ' Robert Sheppard confesses of his virtuosic variations of Petrarch's third sonnet, 'I was off on one.' With comic verve, he deftly refunctions some of the finest sonneteers, Petrarch himself, and those of 'The English Strain': Wyatt and Surrey, 'the first reformers' of English poetry, and John Milton, exemplary political poet. None is safe from Sheppard's comedic appropriations of their works and days. Wyatt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848617461
• ISBN13: 9781848617469
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"