Word: sonneteers
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...verse sometimes betrays another characteristic of young men's verse: an ineptitude with, and reliance upon, adjectives. Yet his average is high, and his best poems are those that are consistently good; his unevenness is confined mostly to the shorter lyrics. He is at his best in the sonnet -- there are a dozen that are really good...
...present laureate, John Masefield, sang so feebly on the occasion of George V's death that he afterwards felt it expedient to declare that he disapproved of churning out verse like a machine. Last week, however, he poised himself for another burst, published his Coronation Sonnet which, despite a feminine rhyme in the last line, is as good an official poem as Britons expect...
...years. His unfortunate experience as the lover of a classmate who has as her other admirer a slightly elder and stronger boy, is told with no effect and appears insipid. Reviewers of books, theatre and cinema plus a fairly entertaining story entitled "A Matter of Strategy" and a sonnet sequence, make up the balance of the issue...
...vast number of decisions as wisely as possible and get them fastened irrevocably upon India, rather than to mull over the Indian Question idealistically ad infinitum. Today the great fact in India is that the Indians have accepted their new Constitution as poets accept the structure of a sonnet. It is utterly a thing imposed by London, but within its frame a talented people of wanglers and weaselers can perform all sorts of feats of freedom: within the Empire, and not with "dominion status" as St. Gandhi had demanded of the statesman in the Baby Austin...
...sonnet: This man was King in England's direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone, His courage was a flag men rallied on; His steadfast spirit shewed him King indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful...