Saturday, September 19, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 8 The Sonnet and the Romantic Age I (Wordsworth)

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 Wordsworth, known for his Nature poetry, startles us with his London 1802 sonnet that is Blakean and also refers back to the Life of Milton...
Friday, September 18, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 7 (From Shakespeare to Milton)

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 Shakespeare has many sonnets that haunt us. I am forced to quote a third one now for its purity of thought and diction. Sonnet 116: Let me ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 6 (The Golden Age of the Elizabethan Sonnet)

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 From the Vantage point of the 21st century Shakespeare matters for several reasons as a sonneteer, for his use of rhymed iambic pentameter,...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

You Have To Surrender To Me, To Conquer

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The controversial sarga eight of Kumara Sambhavam by Kalidasa says of Shiva that he made love to Parvathy (Malayalam transliteration) non-st...

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 5 - William Shakesepare (Dedicated to M Padma Shri, the poet's, memory; on whom I wrote a poem)

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  Q1 Q2 Q3V EC "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? - a Thou art more lovely and more temperate: -b Rough winds do shake the darlin...
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Monday, September 14, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 4 The English Sonnet continued

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 We see many inconsistencies, in a sense, in the sonnets of Wyatt. He uses lines that are ten or eleven or twelve syllables in couplets in t...