All through his career Berry has written elegiac poems, and these best display his incorporation of such concerns into poetry of increasing individuality and subtlety. He believes the writer must not shrink from a role in the affairs of the world. Beginning as a writer in the tradition of Understanding Poetry, Berry has come increasingly to emphasize history, a sense of place, and his experience as a farmer in his poetry. The second part traces the development of Wendell Berry's poetry in the light of his philosophical and critical writings. This enables her to give a long, confessional poem the cohesion usually associated with individual lyrics. Dante Rossetti conceives the sonnet sequence as a grand autobiography structured around individual epiphanies much like Wordsworth's "spots of time." Christina Rossetti, equally compelled to autobiographical expression, structures her sequences as macrosonnets, each sonnet corresponding functionally to one line of a sonnet.
This is responsible for the many misreadings of Shakespeare which emphasize the "real" identity of characters like the "dark lady." Poets like the Rossettis reconceived the sonnet sequence, because of such misreadings, as a means of autobiographical expression. Because Romantic and Victorian sonnet writers had grown away from a sense of the way Elizabethans used conventions, they interpreted Elizabethan sonnets in terms of their own autobiographical notions of poetry. Major works considered include Shakespeare's Sonnets, Dante Rossetti's The House of Life, and Christina Rossetti's Manna Innominata. Description The first part explores the theory and practice of Victorian sonnet sequence writers in the light of Elizabethan practices.
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