Word: sonneteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teaches French literature at Toulouse in addition to being Dean, is a scholar of unusual distinction and is the author of various works on the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is announced that in addition to his half-course on the subject of "The Sonnet in French Literature", Professor Guy will give a series of public lectures on the Work of Pierre Corneille. Both the lectures and the course will be conducted in French, though the dates of meeting have not yet been announced...
...announcement by the College Office of five new half-courses starting after the examinations throws some interesting sidelights on the ever enlarging field of activity of the University. The list includes one course by Professor Henri Guy, the exchange professor sent over by the French Government on "The Sonnet in French Literature," and one to be given by Professor Hotne of the University of Patua on "The History and Government of India." The list follows...
French 30 hf.: "The Sonnet in French Literature." Lectures and text interpretation. Half-course starting second half-year. (Two hours a week.) Conducted in French by Professor Henri Guy of the University of Toulouse...
...have come round to the ballad. We cannot, and do not wish to, escape. Mr. Benet may brood over the sonnet (there are 16 in the book), but it will only flicker; it will not shine. For the sonnet's Procrustean tyranny will brook no revolt: the breather of cadences is either stretched or beheaded--both equally painful...
...steadfast muscles draw my sonnet...