Sonnets in a sentence

At this time members of Shelley's literary circle would sometimes challenge each other to write competing sonnets on a common subject—Shelley, John Keats and Leigh Hunt wrote competing sonnets on the Nile around the same time.

Edna W. Underwood, "Sonnets from the Crimea/A biographical sketch "Adam Mickiewicz: A Biographical Sketch", in Sonnets from the Crimea, Paul Elder and Company, San Francisco (1917).

Even before the two unauthorised sonnets appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599, Francis Meres had referred in 1598 to Shakespeare's "sugred Sonnets among his private friends".

Sonnets main Title page from 1609 edition of Shake-Speares Sonnets.

These sonnets were all essentially inspired by the Petrarchan tradition, and generally treat of the poet's love for some woman, with the exception of Shakespeare's sequence of 154 sonnets.

Wordsworth himself wrote hundreds of sonnets, of which amongst the best-known are " Upon Westminster Bridge ", " The world is too much with us " and " London, 1802 " addressed to Milton; his sonnets were essentially modelled on Milton's.

Long a devotee of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, Lincoln gravitated naturally to the melodic formations of the King James Bible as he struggled to come to terms with the butcher’s bill he had asked the country to pay.

Her poems, many published while she attended Wilson Junior College, ranged in style from traditional ballads and sonnets to poems using blues rhythms in free verse.

Whether it is one of the 21 love sonnets by or a mournful poem to ; Lama says that a sense of intimacy is what determines a love letter poem’s ability to be great because of its ability to make readers feel.

Some of these sonnets are addressed to a female and others to a male.

The poem takes the form of an intricately locked series of 15 sonnets known as a crown, or corona.

We wouldn’t do the sonnets on the Hubbard stage, we wouldn't do short plays on the Hubbard stage; they're just too short but they're great and they're perfect for the internet.

In seventy sonnets written after Trump’s election, Hayes manages boundless anxiety with formal innovation.

Shakespeare wrote in his sonnets not only of the joys of love but its vicissitudes (betrayal, unrequited affection, rivals).

The sonnets themselves sat like an uncomfortable guest trying to decode the tussle among Writer, Muse and Lover.

Some 300 of his poems have been preserved, of which 75 are sonnets.

The centerpiece of her new book, a finalist for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in 2017, is a group of 15 sequenced sonnets that respond to the Chinese Terracotta Army.

The club is looking at exploring a variety of prompts, which range from structural types like sonnets or sestinas to thematic suggestions.

According to Sobran and other researchers, the themes and personal circumstances expounded by the author of the Sonnets are remarkably similar to Oxford's biography.

Age and lameness Oxford was born in 1550, and was between 40 and 53 years old when he presumably would have written the sonnets.