Sunday, September 27, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 17 (Toru Dutt, Edna St Vincent Millay, Sonnet Mondal and e.e.cummings.)

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 The sonnet thus became an international phenomenon, but what is a sonnet? The sonnet is from the Italian word sonetto which means little so...
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Saturday, September 26, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 16 (The sonnet in India, the beginnings in West Bengal, with reference to Tagore & Michael Madhusudan Dutt)

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 I could go on about the sonnet abroad and how DG Rosetti embellished his paintings with sonnets or vice versa but refrain as I want to come...
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Friday, September 25, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet as a Form - Chapter 15 (The "Stirrings Still" of Beckett, Modernism & the late great one and only Berryman)

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 I have been to Italy and England as well as France and Germany. Let me now visit Ireland and America and Russia, in passing, via a Becketti...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 14 - Rilke in Germany

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  There is no end to sonnets or those who write sonnets and sonnet sequences or are specialized in sonnets. But only some matter to me in sk...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

A Brief History of the Sonnet - Chapter 13 The First Stirrings of Modernism (Rimbaud and Hopkins).

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 Rimbaud's sonnet is so powerfully moving  I can read it again and again.  But for poetry in English, no one is as powerful as Hopkins a...
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