Word: sonnet
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...sweeter than a Shakespearean sonnet, murmur millions of American women...
...Bollingen, America's highest award for poetry. He was delightfully unpredictable. There was Cummings the crazy syntactical iconoclast who rarely used capital letters and recklessly (often unintelligibly) strewed syllables, commas and other gimcracks around the page. On the next page, though, he would turn up as a solemn, sonnet-writing traditionalist-or as Cummings the dreadful punster ("honey swoRkey mollypants"), or the pseudo pornographer happily smirking from the decks of his ship, the S.S. Van Merde: "May i feel said he (i'll squeal said...
...suggested as Marilyn's tragic Lothario, and a friend in Mexico City announced breathlessly that Marilyn and he had intended to marry in September. Writers even troubled themselves with the identity of the anonymous mourner who sent $50 worth of roses to the funeral-together with a love sonnet from Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Marilyn's troubled financial state was suggested as meaningful: apart from her $77,500 house, which carried a $35,000 mortgage, her property consisted of some $4,000 in cash plus clothing, furs and jewelry. For the past two years she had restricted herself...
Ever since Shakespeare wrote the sonnet They That Have Power to Hurt, people thought they knew what it meant. But in 1935 a young British critic named William Empson told them they did not. The sonnet, he announced, contains 4,096 possible meanings. He then presented some of them by showing the sonnet's ambiguous use of words, metaphors and punctuation, by finding half-buried references to Machiavelli and King Solomon and even prophetic hints of Oscar Wilde. Literary criticism has not been the same since...
...designer Horace Armistead and seventeenth-century costumes by Lewis Smith, features Petee Haskell as the disillusioned Alceste. Lucy Stone plays the beautiful and heartless Celimene with Joanne Hamlin as Arsinoe and Lynn Millgrim as Eliante. Paul Barstow performs as the misanthrope's friend, Philinte, and Samuel Abbot as the sonnet-writing Oronte. David Cole and Harry Smith are cast as the court fops, Clitandre and Acaste...