P.Hill+Annotated+Bibliography

Alighieri, Dante. "Sestina." //Famous Poets and Poems//. Web. .

· This is a sestina by Dante. I am interested in his approach to the sestina, because I have studied //The Divine Comedy//, and I know a lot of poets find inspiration in his works. Dante may be an example of the ideal, but it’s a nice jumping-off point to see what one of the most quoted poets does with the form.

Bishop, Elizabeth. "Sestina." //Poem Hunter//. Web. .

· This is another example of a more idyllic example of the sestina, but I think it is more accessible because it is more modern than Dante and uses more familiar language. It is simple, yet very smart.

"How to Write a Sestina: 13 Steps." //WikiHow//. Web. .

· This is WikiHow’s 13 steps to writing a sestina. Most of it is filled with encouraging words, like “Don’t give up!” but, it also gives a clear plan for mapping out the sestina, and offers some helpful tips that I hadn’t thought of before.

"Sestina Links." //About Poetry//. Web. .

· This is a list of famous sestinas and a link to the definition of a sestina/introduction to the form. This adds more sample works to my poetry anthology. Authors include Ashbery, Bishop, Sidney, Pound, and Swinburne.

"Sestina." //Wikipedia//. Web. .

· The Wikipedia site for the sestina. It provides a helpful graph illustrating the pattern of the sestina, offers the names of poets who have written sestinas, and gives a little bit of the history of the sestina.

Strand, Mark, and Eavan Boland. "The Sestina." //The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms//. New York: Norton, 2001. 21-42. Print.

· This is the poetry anthology in which I was first introduced to the sestina. It gives the basic structure and rules for writing a sestina, the history of a sestina, a wide sampling of a variety of sestinas, and a close reading of Pound’s “Sestina: Altaforte.” Authors include Spenser, Sidney, Barnes, Rossetti, Swinburne, Gosse, Kipling, Pound, Kees, Hecht, Williams, and Ríos.

= Mostly you're learning from the Masters here. Try to find some popular web sites, where contemporary writers are working on sestinas. You don't want to write like Dante or Rosetti or Pound. =