Sestinas

Various

The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. - Summary by Newgatenovelist

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni by Dante Alighieri Peter Tucker
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Play 02 Sestina I – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri Peter Tucker
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Play 03 Sestina II – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri Peter Tucker
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Play 04 Sestina III – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri Peter Tucker
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Play 05 Ode II by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 06 Ode VIII by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 07 Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 08 Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 09 Sestina I by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 10 Sestina II by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 11 Sestina III by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 12 Sestina IV by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 13 Sestina V by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 14 Sestina VI by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 15 Sestina VII by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 16 Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 17 Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Peter Tucker
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Play 18 Petrarch's First Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 19 Sestina from Petrarch by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 20 Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 21 Double Sestina by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 22 A Sestina on a Lover’s Hours by Francesco Petrarch Newgatenovelist
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Play 23 Cuddie’s Sestina by Edmund Spenser Peter Tucker
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Play 24 Strephon and Klaius by Philip Sidney Peter Tucker
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Play 25 Adgelastus’ Sestine by Philip Sidney Peter Tucker
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Play 26 Farewell by Philip Sidney Peter Tucker
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Play 27 Sestin I by William Alexander Newgatenovelist
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Play 28 Sestin II by William Alexander Newgatenovelist
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Play 29 Sestine 1 by Barnabe Barnes Peter Tucker
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Play 30 Sestine 2 by Barnabe Barnes Peter Tucker
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Play 31 Sestine 3 by Barnabe Barnes Peter Tucker
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Play 32 Sestine 4 by Barnabe Barnes Peter Tucker
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Play 33 Sestine 5 by Barnabe Barnes Peter Tucker
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Play 34 A Complaint by Francis Davison Newgatenovelist
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Play 35 Sextain – The Heaven Doth Not Contain So Many Stars by William Drummond Peter Tucker
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Play 36 Sextain – Sith Gone is My Delight and Only Pleasure by William Drummond Peter Tucker
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Play 37 Sestine by Friedrich Rückert Peter Tucker
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Play 38 A Sestina by James Mew Newgatenovelist
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Play 39 Sestina by Edmund Gosse Peter Tucker
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Play 40 Rizzio’s Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne Peter Tucker
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Play 41 Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne Peter Tucker
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Play 42 The Complaint of Lisa by Algernon Charles Swinburne Newgatenovelist
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Play 43 Beside the Sea by R. K. Munkittrick Peter Tucker
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Play 44 A Sestina by H. C. Faulkner Newgatenovelist
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Play 45 Cupid and the Shepherd by Clinton Scollard Peter Tucker
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Play 46 The Voices of Spring by Elizabeth Akers Newgatenovelist
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Play 47 Sestina by Florence Byrne Newgatenovelist
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Play 48 An Island Pine by Elisabeth Cavazza Newgatenovelist
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Play 49 Love’s Going by Charles W. Coleman, Junior Peter Tucker
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Play 50 An Explanatory Sestina by Henry Nesgarde Johnson Peter Tucker
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Play 51 The Stars by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Newgatenovelist
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Play 52 Pulvis et Umbra by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Newgatenovelist
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Play 53 Personality by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Newgatenovelist
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Play 54 Dorothy by Annie Eliza Johnson Newgatenovelist
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Play 55 Thelga and Ethred by Harrison Robertson Newgatenovelist
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Play 56 The Birthday by Richard Garnett Newgatenovelist
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Play 57 Fra Filippo Lippi and the Nun by Mary Anna Buck Evans Newgatenovelist
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Play 58 An Incident in the Crusades by Mary Anna Buck Evans Newgatenovelist
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Play 59 Drake, and the Ransom of San Domingo - 1585 by Mary Anna Buck Evans Newgatenovelist
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Play 60 The Things I Love by John Lawrence Smith Newgatenovelist
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Play 61 Sestina by Timothy Barrett Newgatenovelist
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Play 62 Sestina of the Tramp-Royal by Rudyard Kipling Peter Tucker
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Play 63 Sestina of the Red Heart and White World by John William Lloyd Newgatenovelist
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Play 64 Sestina by Charles Camp Tarelli Peter Tucker
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Play 65 Sestina – The Higher Scepticism by Charles Camp Tarelli Peter Tucker
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Play 66 Sestina – The Adventurers by Charles Camp Tarelli Peter Tucker
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Play 67 To the Forest by Eugene Lee-Hamilton Newgatenovelist
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Play 68 Homes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newgatenovelist
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Play 69 The Bawling World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newgatenovelist
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Play 70 A Dream of Gold by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newgatenovelist
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Play 71 Sestina by Annie Lake Townsend Newgatenovelist
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Play 72 In the Autumn Woods by Charles Edward Russell Newgatenovelist
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Play 73 Sestina by Post Wheeler Peter Tucker
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Play 74 Sestina of Youth and Age by Gelett Burgess Peter Tucker
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Play 75 New Hope by Charles F. Johnson Newgatenovelist
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Play 76 Sestina by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Newgatenovelist
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Play 77 Rebel-Chimes by Ardeen Foster Newgatenovelist
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Play 78 Sestina by Victor Reese Newgatenovelist
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Play 79 Sestina - A Song in Winter by W. M. James Newgatenovelist
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Play 80 Mid-Summer’s Eve by Stanley Matthews Cleveland Newgatenovelist
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Play 81 Sestina by Margaret Thomas Newgatenovelist
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Play 82 Sestina of the Yellow Rose by H. E. D. Newgatenovelist
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Play 83 Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound Peter Tucker
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Play 84 Sestina for Ysolt by Ezra Pound Peter Tucker
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Play 85 The Immortal World by Nina Salaman Newgatenovelist
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Play 86 Sestina of the Ardent Club Woman by Mary Eleanor Roberts Newgatenovelist
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Play 87 Betwixt the Night and Day by Nels Dickmann Anderson Peter Tucker
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Play 88 Love’s Serenade by Nels Dickmann Anderson Peter Tucker
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Play 89 Sestina of the Shuffling Feet by William Andrew MacKenzie Peter Tucker
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Play 90 Sestina by Leroy Titus Weeks Newgatenovelist
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Play 91 The Sestina of Thoughtful Bill by Edward Benninghaus Kenna Peter Tucker
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Play 92 A Rhymed Sestina by Dorothy Frances Gurney Peter Tucker
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Play 93 The Sestina of the New Englander by Shirley Harvey Peter Tucker
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Play 94 The Conqueror Passes by James Branch Cabell Peter Tucker
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Play 95 The House of Silence by Richard Butler Glaenzer Newgatenovelist
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Play 96 Narcissus by Thomas Grant Springer Peter Tucker
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Play 97 Sestina by Mary Cromwell Low Newgatenovelist
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Play 98 Sestina of a Scamp Royal by John Francis Glynn Peter Tucker
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Play 99 Sestina – The Reawakening of Desire by Dolf Wyllarde Peter Tucker
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Play 100 Sestina to Professor Gildersleeve on His Forthcoming Sonnets by Carol Wight Newgatenovelist
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Play 101 Sestina by Henry Dumont Peter Tucker
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