Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets

An essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling...
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Author: Paul Muldoon
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Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets by Muldoon, Paul

Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets

$22.95

Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets

$22.95
Author: Paul Muldoon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling verse form.

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 Elizabeth Bishop, Wanda Coleman, John Donne, Terrance Hayes, John Keats, Claude McKay, Edna St Vincent Millay, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Patricia Smith and W. B. Yeats. There are also translations by Muldoon of sonnets by Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and César Vallejo, as well as the duo of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud.

Author: Paul Muldoon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780571373444


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/17/2025

About the Author
Muldoon, Paul: - 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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