Sonnet 122 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and first published in 1609. It is a member of the Fair...
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wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were...
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ten-and-a-half-line) sonnet, but rather than the first eleven lines of a standard sonnet it has precisely the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet in which each...
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The New Colossus (category Sonnets)
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal...
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Sonnet 146, which William Shakespeare addresses to his soul, his "sinful earth", is a pleading appeal to himself to value inner qualities and satisfaction...
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poem back to the sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth, saying: "But he went to school with Wordsworth's sonnet "The world is too...
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William Shakespeare (category Sonneteers)
extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship...
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Volta (literature) (section Sonnets)
a word for this, stemming supposedly from technique specific mostly to sonnets. Volta is not, in fact, a term used by many earlier critics when they address...
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expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 92 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final...
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mulierum elogia. Bordeaux: Simon Millanges. 1590. p. 122. Epistolae Heroides et Hymni (1592) Sonnet of Venus and Cupid Pound, Ezra (1934), p. 134 Boyd,...
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Sonnet 32 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the...
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The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (category Sonnets by William Shakespeare)
Hart-Davis, R., Oxford University Press, 1979, p.122. G. Wilson Knight, The Mutual Flame: On Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Phoenix and the Turtle, Methuen: London...
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123 (one hundred [and] twenty-three) is the natural number following 122 and preceding 124. 123 is a Lucas number. It is the eleventh member of the Mian–Chowla...
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Philip Sidney (category Sonneteers)
the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a sonnet sequence, Astrophel and Stella, a treatise, The Defence of Poesy (also known...
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activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883...
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Samuel Daniel (redirect from Sonnets to Delia)
innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle Delia, the epic poem The Civil Wars Between the Houses of Lancaster...
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Sonnet 41 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a part of the Fair Youth section of the sonnets...
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doesn't understand what Granny wants and begins to quote Shakespeare's Sonnets. Granny thinks he's courting her. The Chauffeur (John Barron) takes Jethro...
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never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it, Mount...
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advertisement for three months, which in turn helped promote Urban Hymns. "Sonnet" was released as the fourth and final single from the album in March 1998...
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Iambic pentameter (category Sonnet studies)
William Shakespeare famously used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets, John Milton in his Paradise Lost, and William Wordsworth in The Prelude...
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written against his rival in poetry, Luis de Góngora. The point of his sonnet was to mock his rival by suggesting his large nose was proof he was, not...
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instance of the word paladin in the English language dates to 1592, in Delia (Sonnet XLVI) by Samuel Daniel. It entered English through the Middle French word...
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"The Lark Ascending" is a poem of 122 lines by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon called it matchless of...
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play. He begins with a 14-line prologue in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, spoken by a Chorus. Most of Romeo and Juliet is, however, written in blank...
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label of producer David Foster, a sub-label of Atlantic Records Psalm 143 Sonnet 143 by William Shakespeare Slovenia ranks #143 in world population The 143...
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World Records as the world's most multi-functional penknife with 87 tools. Sonnet 87 by William Shakespeare. Vault 87 is a main location in the game Fallout...
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Reasoning Jonathan Evans 28 September 2017 psychology 534 Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems Jonathan F. S. Post 28 September 2017 Literature 535 Mammals...
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poet Pietro Aretino advocated anal sex in his Sonetti Lussuriosi ('Lust Sonnets'). During the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher questioned the inclusion of "risky...
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the court official and poet John Harington (c.1529 - 1582), who wrote sonnets and poems addressed to her, before and after they married. Thomas Palfreyman...
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