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an externalization of the medieval confessional. In his Anatomy
of Criticism (p. 307) Northrop Frye points to the strong
autobiographic strain in prose fiction, “following St. Augustine
who appears to have invented it, and Rousseau who
established a modern type of it. The earlier tradition gave
Religio Medici , Grace Abounding , and Newman’s Apologia to
English literature, besides the related but subtly different type
of confession favored by the mystics.”
In particular the sonnet as a new form of public
confessional fostered by print, is worth study as it relates to
new verse forms. Wordsworth’s familiar sonnet on the sonnet
strikes some main notes of The Gutenberg Galaxy :
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honors; with this key