Word: sonneteering
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...Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences," Professor Rollins, Sever...
Felt more sorrows than could fill a sonnet...
...read Miss Millay and in all probability she has admired her. But to class her work as one of the Millay school is to deny her the elusive fire of originality. Mr. Wilson might just as well said that Miss Parker was of the Petrarch school, since her sonnet form bears resemblances to his. To condemn a lady who pens admirable hymns of hate to any one school is dogmatic especially when that lady can write a touching sonnet concerning a maid standing waiting at the gate and concluding with the illuminating statement that "it was the gate her true...
...follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences and chunks of mental and emotional background are tracked down in hurried asides. Yet such episodes, and much apparently meaningless detail-such as a sonnet composed on a challenge in two and one-half minutes -come into focus sooner or later. The total effect is vivid, clear and all the stronger for its slow fusing...
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