Word: sonnets
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...forty-three of the world’s best poems” in English, each paired with a brief critical essay, has all the passion and eloquence of the volume’s title. The phrase “break, blow, burn” is drawn from a sonnet by the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, but here it has a decidedly contemporary ring...
From August 1 until November 27, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum will host “Degas at Harvard,” an exhibition of over 60 of the French artist’s pieces, in media ranging from sculpture to sonnet...
...Kumin’s first poem for the class was—by her account—a “sappy, sentimental” sonnet that began with the verses...
...second choice, but, aside from her one unfortunate encounter with a merciless member of the English faculty, Kumin speaks fondly of her years as a student here in Cambridge—one might even say she waxes poetically about her undergraduate experience. She was, as her ill-fated sonnet attests, “wide-eyed,” but not “lonely”; her fellow ’Cliffies joined her atop Cabot Hall at night to recite poetry. She swam competitively. And in 1945, she fell in love...
...rich in intellectual exercises, inviting the viewer to pick up a highlighter and compare its structure to that of a sonnet by Donne, but these puzzles are more interesting than the somewhat simplistic questions of philosophy or the realistic but unsympathetic and slightly flat characters. In fact, audience members are more likely to come out of this play inspired to pick up a book of poetry than to be kinder to their fellow man: a result, perhaps, that Vivian Bearing would approve...