Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Church of England, ruled supreme and largely unchallenged among English-speaking Christians for about 350 years. Chapman's Homer, a redaction of the secular words of a pagan bard, naturally received no such binding spiritual and temporal authorization. But Chapman's translations were both thrilling enough--see Keats' sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer--and challenging enough to provoke competing versions. Since Chapman, nearly four centuries' worth of British and, later, American writers have taken on Homer...
During the afternoon, I bought a box of chocolates and a dozen roses and composed a sonnet declaring my undying love which I inscribed in the leaf of a copy of Sonnets from the Portuguese. Nothing could stop me this time...
...aces up my sleeve. This was, after all, a woman who admitted to having been seriously persuaded by John Donne's poem "The Flea" ("Mark but this flea and mark in this,/ How little that which thou deny'st me is..."), so I figured a well-timed sonnet could make all the difference...
Still holding a modicum of hope, I handed her the sonnet. She said, "Oh. The rhyme scheme is right and everything...
...indeed, is love-starved Lamar. The result was a meditative speech earlier this month by Alexander at the Heritage Foundation in which he discussed the obligations of citizenship. "Less from Washington," he said, "has to go hand in hand with more from ourselves." It was a love sonnet to Arianna's ears. But in politics, a romance is consummated with not a kiss but an endorsement, and so far none have been forthcoming...