sonnets

• “Moreover, he follows it up with the defiant assertion that his reading of the sonnets is a "primary reading" which "isn't necessarily required to articulate its findings".”

  The Guardian: Don Paterson braves lit crit's Bermuda Triangle: Shakespeare's sonnets

• “My beloved husband goes through radiation and a book of sonnets is my passionate response.”

  The Huffington Post: Jane Yolen: Jane Yolen Writes 300th Book: Award Winning Children's Book Author Writes About Desire To 'Type Faster' (PHOTOS)

• “Perhaps as inversions abound generally in sonnets, it may be the principal cause of my disrelish for them.”

  Letter 94

• “Robinsons "little wreath" of sonnets is patterned on the legitimate sonnet, a form that she believes only Milton of all the British poets has used with any success.”

  Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'

• “I'm not including my old schoolgirl sonnets from the seventies -- Satin-slippered April, you glide through time/And lubricate spring days, de dum, de dum -- and my dozen or so fawning book reviews from the early eighties.”

  Excerpt: Unless by Carol Shields

• “He had the "Love-sonnets from the Portuguese" in mind as he wrote, and he wrote under the best conditions for great work, at a climacteric of living, in the throes of his own sweet love-madness.”

  Chapter 20

• “Dryden remarks that the elegance he speaks of is common in Italian sonnets, which are usually written on the turn of the first thought; and certainly this speech of Eve might be truly compared, in all but the metrical structure, to an interspersed sonnet.”

  Milton

• “Leyden, and wrote among other poems, partly in Latin, sonnets and four Monarchicke Tragedies, Darius,”

  A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

• “But those who are ignorant would admire her in this dress, and there are many villages in which she would be taken for the queen; hence we call sonnets made after this model "Village Queens.”

  Pascal's Pensées

• “(And unless you are Romeo or Juliet, you probably don’t speak in sonnets anyway.”

  Missing the Vernacular : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

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