In this illuminating, celebratory anthology, two major poets focus on the most classic and enduring of the sonnet's chronological vicissitudes. They pay particular attention to how individual poets - from Shakespeare to Strand - have claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened them, shortened them, elaborated on them and, in turn, been defined by them. With more than three hundred poems, "The Making of a Sonnet" guides readers through a history of the form up to its resurgence in contemporary poetry.