Date of Award
4-1934
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
First Advisor
J.M. Purcell
Abstract
The object of this thesis is to present to the reader a survey of the sonnet and an insight into the lives and characters and spirits of the men who glorified the sonnet in the nineteenth century, and carried it to the heights of literary perfection.
The writer makes no pretense at treating this tremendous subject from all angles, but simply attempts to express her own appreciation of what she deems the very highest type of literature and of poetry.
There is certainly no type of human expression - there is certainly no type of literature and no type of poetry which so clearly gives one an insight into the idealistic and the beautiful as does the sonnet; there are certainly no people, no poets who so profoundly portray a knowledge of the aspirations, ideals and dreams of culture and of life as do the sonneteers.
And it is with this lofty conception of the sonnet as the highest type of poetry, and the sonneteers as the most glorious of poets that the writer presents this thesis.
Recommended Citation
Hinrichsen, Ruth Clara, "The Sonnets of the Nineteenth Century" (1934). Bachelors’ Theses. 661.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/661
Comments
A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.