Word: sonneteering
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...Says Jean .Kerr: "I seem to need less consolation than a lot of my friends," and one reason may be her solid religious convictions. "The most important thing about me," she says, "is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like the sonnet. I need that. A good director tells the actors where to move exact ly; then they're free to act. I'm grateful for that discipline, and I've never had a crisis of conscience." In a recurrent dream, she dies, now in a road accident, now of disease...
...celebrated sonnet, Keats said that...
Facts of Life sounds more like truth than filmdom. Here is my September 1960 vintage sonnet, "Were I His Mistress...
...which he first struck the tone of most modern Anglo-American poetry - spare, objective, unornamented, elliptic. Dante, the medieval troubadours, and his pet hate-love Whitman had been his tutors, but he had done the homework of craftsmanship. (In one undergraduate year he had written a sonnet a day.) Though stripped for action, many of Pound's lines still retained the lilt of romance. In An Immorality, he wrote...
...anthill with a sticky pink tongue almost two feet long ; an immense gorilla that one moment crashes through canebrake like an express train, and the next sits placidly sucking a palm stalk ; a vast herd of zebras plunging, as they plunge in Roy Campbell's vivid sonnet, "Barred with electric tremors through the grass/ Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre...