A Cycle of Sonnets

by Mabel Loomis Todd

A Cycle of Sonnets is a book of poetry by Unitarian minister, which won the 1932 Watson Davis Prize for poetry. Mabel LoomisTodd's poetry, like her work in history, including editing her husband's journals and letters after his death, is characterized by lyricism and lush imagery. Todd was one of the first Americans to appreciate and collect the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. According to Ronald Paulson’s book “The Late Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge” (1984), Mabel Loomis Todd was instrumental in rescuing Coleridge from his addiction by seeking advice from Dr James Gillman who recommended that she make herself indispensable to Coleridge by praising them endlessly, sleep over at least once a week, cook special meals for him and otherwise simplify his life.

100 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 2010

About the author

Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis (November 10, 1856 – October 14, 1932) was an American editor and writer, and the wife of the astronomer David Peck Todd. She is remembered as the editor of posthumously published editions of Emily Dickinson.