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Word: sonnets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are only two verse offerings scattered among this month's prose: a somewhat diffuse, and so far as meaning is concerned, opaque sonnet by marvin Barrett, and a very clever parody of Eliot's "A Cooking Egg" by Dunstan Thompson, entitled "A Baked Apple." It is, in fact, something more than clever, but how much more is a matter for debate...

Author: By A. Y., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian; Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience; The Battle Hymn of the Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Variety of Freedoms | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...than rational. It is based largely on Lafayette and legend. When the French Government of Marshal Pétain asked for an armistice most of these U. S. citizens felt that their sentimental faith had been misplaced. They reacted much as did Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay in a sonnet entitled The Old Men of Vichy, which ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Troubled Exiles | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...eloquence Dr. Phelps allows him to deliver is from Hamlet, is spoken in disgust, and is, at that, the mildest dose of vitriol the good doctor could lift out of Hamlet's tongue-lashing. And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a sometime master of verbal magic, begins a mother-sonnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Mothers & Others | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...first three poems, representing his recent work, are, of course, the better ones, but the reader new to Stevens should read the earlier poems first, in order to understand Stevens' thorough background in traditional metrical forms. Stevens' handling of the strait-laced sonnet form alone shows his power. Another thing to watch is his neat handling of dialogue in verse. He does this in Outside the Hospital. Then, after seeing the metrical artist at work, look at the holy handling of subject matter in The Beggar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

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