Word: sonnet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shakespeare was repeatedly showing off. There are numerous setpieces that, while lovely poetry in themselves, impede the dramatic flow. And he imposes on his dialogue a number of traditional forms from outside the theater. For instance, the lovers' first meeting is cast in the mold of one complete Elizabethan sonnet and part of a second; their postnuptial parting is a Provencal alba (which the Bard may have known through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and which reaches its peak of effectiveness in the second act of the aforementioned Tristan); Juliet declaims a Classical epithalamium; and Paris delivers an elegy...
...author's own intricate metaphor-performing a ritual of crucial selection. Bogdanovich and his screenwriter, Frederic Raphael (Darling), have swept out all the undertone from Jamesian society, trying instead to make high drama out of mere social graces. It is a little like trying to wring a sonnet out of a bill of fare...
Lowell's prize-winning book is a continuation of his experimentation with the sonnet begun in "Notebook 1967-68." "Lowell invented the unrhymed 14-line form about seven years ago, and since then has made thousands of revisions," Elizabeth Bishop, lecturer on English and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, said yesterday. "His new verse is full of marvelous imagery as it always has been, but I like 'History' best of the three recent books...
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...Sonnet in Terza Rima...