Word: sonneteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Brandon, Richard Todd is equally adept at gathering a nosegay for the princess, writing her a sonnet, and fighting off the evil duke and his henchmen. Portly James Robertson Justice plays a younger and more forceful Henry VIII than the one Charles Laughton has made familiar to moviegoers. As Mary Tudor, elfin-faced Glynis Johns, with her wryly insinuating voice, gives a winning characterization of a conniving little royal baggage...
...Wrote Milton, in his famous sonnet On His Blindness: When I consider how my light is spent, E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear...
...began experimental things in forms, what I called 'involute rhymes'; you know, the sonnet seems somehow fancy now." Among many short poems, Alfred also contributed three odes on religious themes and has devoted himself mainly to longer poems ever since. "A poem usually takes me a few months, mostly elegies of people on my mind who keep coming back to me." The magazine folded in 1943 because Alfred and his friends had to enter the army...
...four years the work on the ceiling continued, in conditions best described by Michelangelo himself in an irritated sonnet...
Poetry occupies several pages in this Advocate and most of it is good if not exceptional. David Chandler's Sonnet achieves a poignant, sustained effect from a careful control of visual images and brilliantly worded passages. Neither the cadence, sound, nor form interfere with his feelings on growing up. The poem advances smoothly and communicates directly. Southampton Beach, by Charles Neuhauser, relies more on sense impressions and reflections inspired by them. In places, the impressions seem redundant, yet the transitions to reflection are expertly handled. It is sometimes difficult to know exactly what Neuhauser is saying, however, because he uses...