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
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Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni by Dante Alighieri
Episode 1 · 2:46
Sestina I – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri
Episode 2 · 2:21
Sestina II – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri
Episode 3 · 2:31
Sestina III – Similitudes of Love by Dante Alighieri
Episode 4 · 2:27
Ode II by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 5 · 2:21
Ode VIII by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 6 · 2:23
Sestina by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 7 · 2:46
Sestina by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 8 · 6:20
Sestina I by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 9 · 2:31
Sestina II by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 10 · 2:36
Sestina III by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 11 · 2:30
Sestina IV by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 12 · 2:20
Sestina V by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 13 · 2:29
Sestina VI by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 14 · 2:28
Sestina VII by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 15 · 2:30
Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 16 · 2:32
Sestina by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 17 · 4:28
Petrarch's First Sestina by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 18 · 2:35
Sestina from Petrarch by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 19 · 2:44
Sestina VIII by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 20 · 3:36
Double Sestina by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 21 · 5:02
A Sestina on a Lover’s Hours by Francesco Petrarch
Episode 22 · 2:57
Cuddie’s Sestina by Edmund Spenser
Episode 23 · 2:37
Strephon and Klaius by Philip Sidney
Episode 24 · 4:42
Adgelastus’ Sestine by Philip Sidney
Episode 25 · 2:27
Farewell by Philip Sidney
Episode 26 · 2:17
Sestin I by William Alexander
Episode 27 · 2:44
Sestin II by William Alexander
Episode 28 · 2:36
Sestine 1 by Barnabe Barnes
Episode 29 · 1:49
Sestine 2 by Barnabe Barnes
Episode 30 · 2:02
Sestine 3 by Barnabe Barnes
Episode 31 · 1:52
Sestine 4 by Barnabe Barnes
Episode 32 · 4:13
Sestine 5 by Barnabe Barnes
Episode 33 · 6:28
A Complaint by Francis Davison
Episode 34 · 4:30
Sextain – The Heaven Doth Not Contain So Many Stars by William Drummond
Episode 35 · 2:21
Sextain – Sith Gone is My Delight and Only Pleasure by William Drummond
Episode 36 · 2:26
Sestine by Friedrich Rückert
Episode 37 · 2:32
A Sestina by James Mew
Episode 38 · 3:03
Sestina by Edmund Gosse
Episode 39 · 2:24
Rizzio’s Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Episode 40 · 2:24
Sestina by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Episode 41 · 2:19
The Complaint of Lisa by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Episode 42 · 11:27
Beside the Sea by R. K. Munkittrick
Episode 43 · 2:20
A Sestina by H. C. Faulkner
Episode 44 · 3:21
Cupid and the Shepherd by Clinton Scollard
Episode 45 · 2:14
The Voices of Spring by Elizabeth Akers
Episode 46 · 3:09
Sestina by Florence Byrne
Episode 47 · 2:54
An Island Pine by Elisabeth Cavazza
Episode 48 · 3:01
Love’s Going by Charles W. Coleman, Junior
Episode 49 · 2:23
An Explanatory Sestina by Henry Nesgarde Johnson
Episode 50 · 2:09
The Stars by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Episode 51 · 2:59
Pulvis et Umbra by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Episode 52 · 3:09
Personality by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Episode 53 · 3:11
Dorothy by Annie Eliza Johnson
Episode 54 · 3:12
Thelga and Ethred by Harrison Robertson
Episode 55 · 3:07
The Birthday by Richard Garnett
Episode 56 · 3:01
Fra Filippo Lippi and the Nun by Mary Anna Buck Evans
Episode 57 · 2:46
An Incident in the Crusades by Mary Anna Buck Evans
Episode 58 · 2:53
Drake, and the Ransom of San Domingo - 1585 by Mary Anna Buck Evans
Episode 59 · 2:38
The Things I Love by John Lawrence Smith
Episode 60 · 2:53
Sestina by Timothy Barrett
Episode 61 · 2:59
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal by Rudyard Kipling
Episode 62 · 2:09
Sestina of the Red Heart and White World by John William Lloyd
Episode 63 · 2:45
Sestina by Charles Camp Tarelli
Episode 64 · 2:17
Sestina – The Higher Scepticism by Charles Camp Tarelli
Episode 65 · 2:13
Sestina – The Adventurers by Charles Camp Tarelli
Episode 66 · 2:14
To the Forest by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Episode 67 · 3:15
Homes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Episode 68 · 2:32
The Bawling World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Episode 69 · 2:43
A Dream of Gold by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Episode 70 · 2:43
Sestina by Annie Lake Townsend
Episode 71 · 2:49
In the Autumn Woods by Charles Edward Russell
Episode 72 · 3:06
Sestina by Post Wheeler
Episode 73 · 1:30
Sestina of Youth and Age by Gelett Burgess
Episode 74 · 2:19
New Hope by Charles F. Johnson
Episode 75 · 2:19
Sestina by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Episode 76 · 2:44
Rebel-Chimes by Ardeen Foster
Episode 77 · 2:21
Sestina by Victor Reese
Episode 78 · 2:39
Sestina - A Song in Winter by W. M. James
Episode 79 · 3:00
Mid-Summer’s Eve by Stanley Matthews Cleveland
Episode 80 · 3:13
Sestina by Margaret Thomas
Episode 81 · 1:50
Sestina of the Yellow Rose by H. E. D.
Episode 82 · 2:58
Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound
Episode 83 · 3:10
Sestina for Ysolt by Ezra Pound
Episode 84 · 2:20
The Immortal World by Nina Salaman
Episode 85 · 3:01
Sestina of the Ardent Club Woman by Mary Eleanor Roberts
Episode 86 · 2:08
Betwixt the Night and Day by Nels Dickmann Anderson
Episode 87 · 2:45
Love’s Serenade by Nels Dickmann Anderson
Episode 88 · 2:19
Sestina of the Shuffling Feet by William Andrew MacKenzie
Episode 89 · 2:34
Sestina by Leroy Titus Weeks
Episode 90 · 2:26
The Sestina of Thoughtful Bill by Edward Benninghaus Kenna
Episode 91 · 2:10
A Rhymed Sestina by Dorothy Frances Gurney
Episode 92 · 2:21
The Sestina of the New Englander by Shirley Harvey
Episode 93 · 2:09
The Conqueror Passes by James Branch Cabell
Episode 94 · 2:23
The House of Silence by Richard Butler Glaenzer
Episode 95 · 3:05
Narcissus by Thomas Grant Springer
Episode 96 · 1:59
Sestina by Mary Cromwell Low
Episode 97 · 3:02
Sestina of a Scamp Royal by John Francis Glynn
Episode 98 · 2:14
Sestina – The Reawakening of Desire by Dolf Wyllarde
Episode 99 · 2:09
Sestina to Professor Gildersleeve on His Forthcoming Sonnets by Carol Wight