Four great sonnets: A performance of a play can be a remote, expensive affair, but anyone can pick up a copy of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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However, as with the "anti-sonnets" that comprise Hejinian's 2016 The Unfollowing, these sonnets do not observe the form's iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme, and volta in a traditional way.
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Of all these corresponding sonnets, "Winter" is the most carnal.
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I'd taught a few of his sonnets the previous spring.
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Rodney Dangerfield worked the form the way Shakespeare worked sonnets.
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Shakespeare's meditation on aging is one of his most controversial sonnets.
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Shakespeare wrote two epic narrative poems, 38 plays and 154 sonnets.
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AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN, by Terrance Hayes.
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She stayed at Steepletop with her, reciting sonnets and sharing stories.
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Here is one of his sonnets now, to get you started.
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So I would probably recommend to everyone "The Sonnets," by William Shakespeare.
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Scientists already have managed to translate all of Shakespeare's sonnets into DNA.
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It's impossible not to think of them as resembling Shakespearian sonnets, but they're not sonnets, and not only because they lack regular meter or more than occasional rhyme; more importantly, they are not discursive in a sonnet-like manner.
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Five Shakespeare sonnets, heard over a crackling recording, inspire "Sweet Silent Thought" (2016).
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His first published book was a collection of sonnets, "Sonetos de lo Diario" (1958).
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By comparison, Nixon in '68 was Adlai Stevenson murmuring sonnets at a library luncheon.
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There are different theories about the identity of the sonnets' Dark Lady — just as there is much speculation about the identity of the "fair youth" to whom so many of the earlier sonnets are addressed — but this one ignited the young poet's imagination.
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The Cuban-born French poet José-Maria de Heredia wrote sonnets inspired by Moreau's paintings.
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He had a lot of new work: he had begun to write the unrhymed sonnets.
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I like reading books to the girls I date—Beckett plays, Chekhov stories, Shakespeare sonnets.
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Patrick Stewart has posted videos of himself reading sonnets by Shakespeare on his Twitter feed.
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It was only a matter of time before Rufus Wainwright made an album of Shakespeare sonnets.
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If you want to woo your partner with verse, read:100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
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" ( Laughs ) "When I've got a cold, I don't want to write sonnets or plays or anything!
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Hayes's sonnets emerge out of a sense of peril, and the evasiveness and protectiveness it requires.
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His score for "The Four Seasons" includes sonnets meant to explicate motifs within the music itself.
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Shakespeare was a prolific playwright, penning more than 37 plays and 154 sonnets throughout his entire career.
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The older man addressed to him many passionate sonnets that puts one irresistibly in mind of Shakespeare.
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To us, he bequeathed his tragedies and comedies, his sonnets and verse, which would survive 400 years.
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To us, he bequeathed his tragedies and comedies, his sonnets and verse, which would survive 220 years.
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Michelangelo later wrote the first known sonnets ever addressed to a man—his young lover Tommaso de' Cavalieri.
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Why are sonnets so bracing, I wonder as I launch into a neo-Shakespearean sort of pity party.
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The sonnets of John Donne provide a brooding counterpoint to the gruesome turns of this nervy historical novel.
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Lanier herself published poetry and has been suggested as the inspiration for the Dark Lady of the sonnets.
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His sonnets are vital and unforgettable, anchored by their sense of place and time rather than contained by it.
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It mattered little what sort of man Shakespeare was, whom the Sonnets were addressed to, what his politics were.
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I placed the Spanish sonnets and spiritual passages from Persian love gurus into the box like a Jenga tower.
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Contestants submit algorithms that produce sonnets, complete stories and can perform as one partner in dancing and singing duets.
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Sonnets addressed to a lover (identified four years ago as Juan Ramírez de Lucas) did not appear until 1983.
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Over the years, he translated 15 of the plays, all of the sonnets, and wrote extensively on Shakespeare's poetics.
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Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets (2014) is published by Tender Buttons Press and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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Joseph Heithaus is a professor of English at DePauw University and the author of the poetry collection "Poison Sonnets."
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American high school students can recite Shakespeare's sonnets, derive advanced calculus theorems, and explain the Chinese spheres of influence.
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The sonnets, likely written around 1600, weren't published until 1609—when Constable was in prison, and needed cheering up.
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The performance was part of a program titled "Love Sonnets" that also included works by Franck, Ravel and Dvorak.
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Hayes's response was his most brilliant collection to date, "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin," a consummate volume of 70 poems each titled "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" followed by a "Sonnet Index" of first lines arranged into five additional sonnets — a formidable formal alibi, to be sure.
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But, this Friday won't be all roses and sonnets — that very same day will see another inner planet hitting reverse.
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When Miss Savage visited the Knausts, "she gave poetry readings and recited Shakespeare sonnets from memory," Ms. Knaust Elia said.
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I read through love letters signed with hopeful endings, sonnets expressing feelings that we were not ready to express ourselves.
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Especially when sonnets conclude with a couplet or sestet, this deft sort of closure puts us in the poets' debt.
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The sonnets in Crawlspace begin in standard, contained 14-line form, and gradually lengthen and widen themselves to fill pages.
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"I read poetry and sonnets and he plays the bass," Cattrall says in the video, introducing what she's about to do.
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So, on February 14, we're going to enlist the help of pre-crafted prompts when penning any funny-sexy-cute sonnets.
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It made enclosure so gradual that, even three centuries later, the poet John Clare was lamenting its advance in his sonnets.
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Our sheep friends arrive in Part 4, as the chorus sings phrases from dreamy sonnets by the Dutch poet Willem Kloos.
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More spring joys proliferate in two of the most reliable sources for mood elevation: Shakespeare's sonnets and Emily Dickinson's nature poetry.
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We've covered Friday already: Irish tacos, please, and a reading of the "Glanmore Sonnets" after dinner with your whiskey and pride.
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Petrarch, the 14th-century Italian poet and scholar, wrote his enormous collection of love poems, sonnets and fragments over 40 years.
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Hardwick's clarity, even doctored, carries more energy than the elliptical maunderings of the sonnets from which she is largely or entirely absent.
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Many of his poems take the form of sonnets, and many employ the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the meter of classical French tragedy.
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Of course there was nothing to contain, nothing to dread — as he later rejoiced, in his sonnets, pamphlets and fantastically frank memoirs.
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Coleridge and Keats both dedicated sonnets to Kosciuszko, while Lord Byron roared that he embodied the "sound that crashes in the tyrant's ear".
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Brushing self-pity aside, I immediately clicked on the "What piece of literature are you?" quiz and discovered that I am Shakespeare's sonnets.
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The structure of the sonnets offers comforting conventions — 14 lines in iambic pentameter — which you can count on even during adolescence's tumultuous times.
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By 1922, Rilke had finished his most famous works, the "Duineser Elegien" and "Sonnets to Orpheus," both of which were published in 1923.
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Readers of sonnets observe writers negotiating within rigid formal constraints and often within inflexible psychological or political circumstances, as many of us do.
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"I wanted to find an interesting way to quantify the poetry that could apply to any written text—not just Shakespeare's sonnets," Rougeux says.
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"The sonnets just happened to be a perfect set of bite-sized data that seemed appealing on their own and interesting as a whole."
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It was a deep attachment to the environment, one that didn't feel superficial like arbitrary sonnets strewn across a continent, but pertinent and important.
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The volatility of sonnets instructs us, I believe, for this short form generally hinges on an internal turn, known as a twist or volta.
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He takes traditional verse forms — sonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoums — and retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes as well.
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They're short poems, once circulated by aristocrats for private pleasure, but Shakespeare probably oversaw the publication of his own complete sonnets for their commercial value.
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His last album, "Take All My Loves," was an adaptation of nine Shakespeare sonnets, with vocal cameos by singers like Florence Welch and William Shatner.
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Shakespeare, who died in 1616, wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets which have been translated into over 80 languages and are performed the world over.
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He may have written that "brevity is the soul of wit," but William Shakespeare penned a pretty hefty canon — 38 plays, plus hundreds of sonnets.
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In these 70 sonnets, written after the election of 2016, Hayes set himself the challenge of writing political poems in the guise of love poems.
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She rubbed shoulders with the great and the good of Renaissance Italy, and her sonnets, oscillating between doubt and transcendence, circulated widely among her friends.
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The next in the series is the singer Rufus Wainwright, whose new album, "Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets," is out on April 22.
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After all, Michelangelo had written in his sonnets that he thought intellect was a divine gift — and there was a brain right there in the painting.
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But this summer, I started devoting about 10 minutes a day to memorizing a few poems — one of Shakespeare's sonnets, some Gerard Manley Hopkins, some Longfellow.
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A new project from data artist Nicholas Rougeux seeks to give those words a new, visual form, by transforming all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets into abstract signatures.
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The first 21 of Shakespeare's sonnets, in publication order, are among the most well-known but they're the most likely to have been commissioned by a patron.
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Four hundred years after William Shakespeare died, people still offer new theories about the true identity of the "Dark Lady" and the "Fair Youth" of his sonnets.
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Benjamin was deeply shaken, and he began committing his mourning to a sequence of sonnets, at first fifty in number, though eventually there were more than seventy.
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Blank verse and other prosodic techniques construct a sestina, a handful of sonnets, nonce words, and lyrics or lines organized in quatrains, some using internal and end rhymes.
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In college, I discovered the particular pleasure of exercising the liquor-loosened tongue on Shakespeare's glorious language, and reciting his sonnets was one of my favorite bar pastimes.
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She's best not in the crown of sonnets or the occasional villanelle, but in poems where she lets her will-o'-the-wisp imagination find its own course.
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"Don't Speak" by No Doubt You are a hopelessly romantic pizza-delivery guy who writes sonnets on greasy, sweaty napkins while his car idles softly outside Papa John's.
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Group phone chats that once revolved around physics problems and A.P. Literature sonnets are now filled with plans for rallies, vigils and news about legislation and gun politics.
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Barry Edelstein, the artistic director of the Old Globe theater in San Diego, will lead a free introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets on March 22020 at 6:30 p.m.
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While these are anything but Shakespearean sonnets, we have to admit that this combination of appealing to our hearts and stomachs is definitely a win-win for Valentine's Day.
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Three brilliant minds that had never met, all writing sonnets and passionate letters to each other for four years, eventually falling in love with each other through this correspondence.
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A couple of days later they met for drinks at Hotel Delmano in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Mr. Emanuel impressed Ms. Terzian by rattling off a few sonnets by Shakespeare.
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This study of Shakespeare's sonnets suggests that the beautiful young man addressed in the first hundred and twenty-six of them may have been a poet named Henry Constable.
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In George Bernard Shaw's "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" (1910) it is a beefeater standing guard at the palace who unwittingly furnishes the playwright with his most famous lines.
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This year, we're jettisoning those tired emotional sonnets, bushels of soon-to-be-dead pink roses, and waxy Duane Reade chocolates for a few fresh plays on V-Day standbys.
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If I could write sonnets, I would write one about Ms. Hahn, whose timing — she finds depths in that little pause before a joke crests — can turn laughs into howls.
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Just as the United States are multifarious and contradictory and complicated, he went on until he had accumulated an entire collection of sonnets, all bar none with the same title.
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Other highlights include "Mendelssohn/Incomplete" (2011); "Sweet Silent Thought" (2016), which incorporates Shakespearean sonnets in an original score; and "Untitled" (2016) and "Thousand Yard Stare" (2015), both set to Beethoven.
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Bernadette Mayer has one in her book Sonnets, recently republished in an expanded "25th Anniversary Edition" by Tender Buttons, aka Lee Ann Brown, who also published it the first time around.
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She might have done still better with an earlier book, the collection of love sonnets "Fatal Interview," from 1931, had the best-seller lists existed yet — they weren't introduced until 1935.
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Beyond the rules Like poets who write Elizabethan sonnets rather than free verse, pharmaceutical namers must make difficult decisions based on arcane rules, but their work is still a form of artistry.
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Who else could arrange for the inept Mr. Hall and well-meaning Miss Geist to fall in love through a series of well-placed sonnets and a few Thermoses of gourmet coffee?
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From Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose sonnets inspired the episode "Ozymandias," to Walt Whitman, whose work served as a major plot device, "Breaking Bad" is chock-full of both cultural and literary references.
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In school, "getting" him could be exhilarating, performing his work potentially transformative, and memorizing his sonnets the sort of deeply self-indulgent thing someone might do to impress a teacher or crush.
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See: The ballet "Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux," which premieres on Friday in Nashville, tells the story of Shakespeare and the Dark Lady — possibly a black woman — to whom he dedicated many sonnets.
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"I'm going to read Shakespeare's sonnets and put that hair on, which I do when I'm alone," she told a reporter at Cannes when promoting Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.
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Word by word, it's going to type out all of Shakespeare's 37 plays and 154 sonnets in order, waiting for someone to tweet the next word in the sequence before it types it.
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Onwards through Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans to the polymathic Hohenstaufen King Frederick II, known as stupor mundi, the wonder of the world, during whose reign (1198-1250) sonnets were first written.
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Le Guin has stated that she thinks of genre as a formal constraint, the way a writer of sonnets might treat the fourteen lines as a limitation that allows for otherwise impossible effects.
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But of course, sonnets lend themselves to being strung into sequences rather than coming to a definitive conclusion — the tension and possible contradiction between closure and extension is inherent to the genre's history.
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At the moment, all that is "the other side of science fiction," said Ewan Birney, director of the European Bioinformatics Institute and a member of the group that put Shakespeare's sonnets in DNA.
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I bet most of her plays and all of her sonnets would have been dismissed as ye olde Elizabethan chick lit and buried until they were resurrected by stubborn feminist scholars of today.
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"It is music born of great ambition, and it sounds like that," Mr. Trippett wrote in an email, saying that he heard in it elements from Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets and glimmers of Wagner.
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Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron in 2013 handed Xi, an avid football fan, a signed England team football shirt, while Queen Elizabeth II in 2015 gave him a book of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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But if I only get one choice, then it would have to be Shakespeare and the two-part question: Who is the Fair Youth addressed in your sonnets, and what was he to you?
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The point was that both were writing it in the first place: penguins don't compose sonnets and buffalo don't rap; if you can rhyme moon, June, and spoon, you're a human being, full stop.
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The Earl of Essex staged an unsuccessful rebellion against Elizabeth in 1601, assisted by Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southhampton, who is thought to be the "fair youth" whom Shakespeare himself celebrated in many sonnets.
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Even Liszt's "Tre Sonetti del Petrarca" — to the texts of three sonnets by Petrarch — seemed essentially Italian in this company, less like songs than like dramatic scenes, with urgent recitative and aria-like episodes.
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Inside that head reposed all Shakespeare's works, both plays and Sonnets; all the poetry of William Blake, including the most obscure; Milton's "Paradise Lost", and as much of the Bible as was composed in Hebrew.
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Among the early books printed on a Gutenberg press was a 16th-century collection of sex positions based on the sonnets of the man considered the first pornographer, Aretino—a book banned by the pope.
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That novel presents Shakespeare as a bisexual enjoying a lasting affair with a prostitute, the "dark lady" of his sonnets; Burgess weaves suppositions into an intimately imagined story, making use of internal monologues and playful language.
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Sure, it's got a whole bunch of pockets, a 15-inch laptop sleeve with a side zipper, channels designed for charging cables, and a pocket for shoes, but on the whole, it doesn't exactly inspire sonnets.
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At present, you can read about Mountains and Deserts but not about Ecology, about the American West but not the American South, about Shakespeare's Comedies and Shakespeare's Tragedies and Shakespeare's Sonnets but not about Shakespeare's Histories.
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The poems in this book include not only "Gypsy Ballads," but the "Dark Love Sonnets," with their death-haunted homoeroticism, and poems about the deadly goring of Lorca's friend the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, among others.
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It's a bravura crown of sonnets that unfolds over a full nine pages — vastly longer than Robert W. Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," which my paternal grandfather used to recite, when asked, at family gatherings.
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Her new book Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017), a series of sonnets that consciously disrupt their own formal limits, discovers the violence embedded in our most familiar structures: mortgages, meals, rooms, houses, family relationships, and language itself.
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JULIA BULLOCK Already a force in new music, this eloquent young soprano sings the premiere of Jonathan Berger's "Rime Sparse" as part of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's program "Love Sonnets" at Alice Tully Hall.
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In forms both traditional (ghazal, a crown of sonnets) and unorthodox (crossword puzzle, Mad Lib, bingo card), Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.
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With cave art, there came sketches of reclining female nudes on walls of the La Magdelaine caves from 15,000 BC. When Sumerians discovered how to write cuneiform on clay tablets, they filled them with sonnets to vulvas.
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Visual Verse In an attempt to cure myself of the couple hundred poems I wrote entitled "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin," I have been making drawings to accompany a few leftover fragments and lines.
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In 1897, he enrolled at Harvard, where he studied closely with the humanist philosopher George Santayana, debating matters of belief (Stevens was afire with skepticism, against Santayana's more nuanced views) and even exchanging sonnets on the subject.
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Unlike classic books by Mary Kinzie, John Hollander and Mary Oliver, it will not be of practical use to students hoping to write sonnets, elegies or iambic pentameter (though it's packed with plenty of examples of each).
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Released earlier this year, the album of sonnets set to music dramatically commemorates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death with interpretations that are quintessentially Wainwright—piano-driven, the occasional flurry of strings, his florid tones front and center.
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Rather, it will turn them into insufferable poets, attuned only to their own monologues, adept at writing sestinas and sonnets but unable to survive without the constant hum of technology that does everything for them, no questions asked.
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One of the judges, Harvard English professor and New Yorker contributor Louis Menand, cited syntactical oddities and "uses of language that were just a little off," as reasons why the AI-written sonnets stuck out as so obviously fraudulent.
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Unfortunately, most of the buoyant monologues in "Bird Odyssey" are too long to reprint in this column; fortunately, however, the final section of the poem "The Odyssey in Six Sonnets" satisfies space limitations while delivering on its titular boast.
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Lowell may well have had in mind George Meredith's "Modern Love" (1862), another verse narrative of marital catastrophe, whose sixteen-line sonnets have the poet speaking as both cuckold and adulterer, with anger and self-laceration and bitter amusement.
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I used the first verse of the immortal "Address to a Haggis" to illustrate the tight rhythm and rhyme scheme which he popularized — what became known as the Burns Stanza, as closely associated with him as sonnets are with Shakespeare.
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Then he decided to write operas — the second, "Hadrian," with a libretto by Daniel MacIvor, premiered in Toronto in October — and to compose music for the renowned American experimental theater director Robert Wilson's 211 staging of Shakespeare's sonnets in Berlin.
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More crucial than this recommendation of a contextual reading is the way the sonnets of "The Dolphin" have always required, for any meaningful clarity, some knowledge of what was going on in the actual lives of Lowell and Hardwick and Blackwood.
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With the exception of one grand experiment—the free-form poem "Un Coup de Dés," or "A Throw of the Dice," proofs of which he was correcting at the time of his death—Mallarmé persisted with his sonnets and alexandrines.
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With the Ducks facing a potential 2814-213 series deficit against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday, Getzlaf took over in a way that, if composed by any other hockey player, would have resulted in sonnets being penned by fans the world over.
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Poets have long worked within self-imposed, arbitrary forms, from Dante's terza rima to Petrarch's sonnets, but in the mid to late twentieth century, roughly coeval with the advent of artistic conceptualism, procedural methods in literature became more common and aggressively experimental.
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How could people of this unfortunate era have had a true understanding of the Bard when they had no way to fully grasp the intimacy of the sonnets ("shall i compare u to a summer's day / u are more lovely and more temperate")?
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Giddens and Turrisi recently finished composing the music for a ballet, staged in Nashville, titled "Lucy Negro Redux," about Black Luce, the Afro-British brothel keeper who some scholars think may have been the inspiration for the "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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His collection "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin" is a poetry finalist, and his book "To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation With the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight" is a finalist for criticism.
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He seems to have genuinely loved her and believed in her work: He wrote sonnets introducing some of her books and clearly helped with the financial aspect of funding her printing, since aristocratic women like Cavendish had no sources of income or their own wealth.
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If you're suddenly inclined to spruce up your profile with some Shakespeare, you could do worse than brushing up on all 154 of his sonnets, which have been known to impress a paramour or two (such as Gwyneth Paltrow's character in the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love).
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ViaGen's testimonial section illustrates that, no matter the cost, its customers believe it's money well spent—dozens of former clients there have drafted sonnets in tribute of the preserved genomes of their dead pets and the hopes for the possible clones they may one day produce.
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Some of the titles include Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe and Sonnets from the Singlish by Joshua Ip. BooksActually owner Kenny Leck told Channel News Asia that he was inspired by original Penguin Books' Penguincubator to set up the book vending machines in Singapore.
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The exhibit will also include sonnets, letters, works by contemporaries and "The Torment of Saint Anthony," a supremely weird painting of the holy man getting beaten up by a group of distinctly fishlike demons that Michelangelo copied from a German print when he was barely a teenager.
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Now, it's a fair distance from hot dogs and blueberry pie, but I think this could be the weekend to start "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin," by Terrance Hayes, which Parul Sehgal reviewed for The Times and which Tejal Rao told you about last week.
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The exhibition, A Walk through Astoria and Other Places in Queens, 1943 by Rudy Burckhardt & Edwin Denby at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery (September 14–November 22, 2017), represents the third collaboration between these two men, a photographer and a poet, resulting in a unique album of sequenced photographs and typewritten sonnets.
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