sonnet-writer

As sonnet form seems like anything but a hindrance when it's in the hands of a fluent sonnet-writer, the Western in Gorman's hands seems like an amazingly expressive vehicle.

Archive 2007-08-01 Ed Gorman 2007

As sonnet form seems like anything but a hindrance when it's in the hands of a fluent sonnet-writer, the Western in Gorman's hands seems like an amazingly expressive vehicle.

What the Deadmen Say Ed Gorman 2007

It must have been strange enough if the all but unexampled ardour and constancy with which Rossetti pursued the art of the sonnet-writer had not resulted in absolute mastery.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

The sonnet-book out of which arose much of the correspondence printed in this chapter, contains in its preface and notes hardly an allusion to him, and yet he was, in my judgment, out of all reach and sight, the greatest sonnet-writer of his time.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

"Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son," as examples of Milton at his weakest as a sonnet-writer.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

I tried the theme again before I abandoned it, and was so fortunate as to get him to admit a degree of improvement such as led to his desiring to recall his conjectural judgment on my possibilities as a sonnet-writer, but as the letters in which he characterises the advance are neither so terse in criticism, nor so interesting from the exposition of principles, as the one quoted, I pass them by.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

But in truth, if I have a distinction as a sonnet-writer, it is that I never admit a sonnet which is not fully on the level of every other ....

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

Every sonnet-writer should show full capability of conforming to them in many instances, but never to deviate from them in English must pinion both thought and diction, and, (mastery once proved) a series gains rather than loses by such varieties as do not lessen the only absolute aim -- that of beauty.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

Since these words were written, England has lost the poet-painter, to complete whose work upon the sonnet-writer of mediæval Siena I attempted the translations in this essay.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Since these words were written, England has lost the poet-painter, to complete whose work upon the sonnet-writer of mediæval Siena I attempted the translations in this essay.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866