Word: sonneteering
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Which sold far better than a sonnet...
...Sonnet to a Sorehead to Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith...
Just as the form of the sonnet seems to lend itself to reflections on love and beauty, so does the very lift and swing of the limericks suggest ideas which would be absolutely impossible on the printed page. One cannot imagine Tennyson producing limericks Or Milton. The thought is revolving. On the other hand, the conjunction of Rabelais and blank verse is equally incongruous...
...reminded, of Poet Pierre's 400th birthday last week. It was the first time an American college had so honored him and Poet Pierre would have swelled with pride to hear those professors and young women of Smith singing the airs of his period and applauding a sonnet written for the occasion in his honor...
...city sonnet contest is the second of six international poetic contests organized by Mrs. William H. Bartlett to establish poetry on an international platform. Over 800 sonnets were submitted of which 30 received votes for first, second, and third place...