Word: spenserian
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...with a Spenserian sonnet, there's a uniformity to the open letters to Lucas. First, there's the issue of whether to address the director as "Mr. Lucas" or "George." Writers who choose informality seem more likely to harbor the delusion that Lucas will actually read their letters. Then the writer must begin by describing the first time he saw Star Wars ("I was the first kid on my block to see it," "I saw it in utero," etc.). Often the writer's origin story segues into a tragedy of childhood abuse, in which his mint collection of figurines...
ALTHOUGH PARKER has shunned current events in his books with few exceptions, Pale Kings and Princes is tied to the present, making a drug ring its subject. Still, instead of self-righteous preaching, Parker skillfully steers clear and delivers a hard-nosed mystery story with all of the Spenserian tactics: annoyance, poking around, and old-fashioned surveillance...
...Shout" is by no means the only great song in the album. The two next best are "That Lucky Old Sun," which presents a Spenserian contrast between the ideal pastoral world and the world of brutal reality and "Respectable," which examines the clash of antipodal ethical systems within a society. The latter skillfully employs a catechismic device, reminiscent of Joyce, with the series of queries...
...clock in the Smith Halls Common Room. The subject will be a "Criticism of the tendencies in modern verse", and the speaker will supplement his points with readings from his own poetry. Mr. Hillyer has recently published a volume entitled. "The Hills Give Promise", while his three Spenserian sonnets, "To them that defended", won the Garrison prize for poetry...
...sonnets are apt to be, and that is saying a good deal. After this comes a fairly amusing and lively story, "Bluff," by "B." Mr. R. S. Mitchell's poem, which follows, "From the Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough...