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Sonnet

Having previously circulated in manuscripts only, both poets' sonnets were first published in Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonnetts, better known as Tottel's Miscellany (1557).


Agnieszka's Dowry

Accepted instances include a brief take-off on Christina Rossetti's long poem "Goblin Market" (the complete text is of course included), a free-verse meditation dovetailing with the "Holy Sonnet XIV" by John Donne, and an English-language invention on Catullus' erotic poem "Number 51" (submitted in the original Latin), itself inspired by Sappho's Ancient Greek (Aeolic) fragment Sappho 31.

Astrophel

Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney is the first of the famous English sonnet sequences, and contains 108 sonnets and 11 songs.

Charles Kains Jackson

In it, he praised such artists as Henry Scott Tuke (to whom he dedicated a homo-erotic sonnet entitled "Sonnet on a picture by Tuke") and Henry Oliver Walker.

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 is a sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames, viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning.

Crown of sonnets

Jaroslav Seifert wrote his sentimental Věnec sonetů (A Wreath of Sonnets) in this form about Prague, with an authorized translation by Jan Křesadlo, who also composed his own emigre riposte in the same format, as well as writing several other sonnet cycles.

Denys Bray

Bray's publications evidence his deep understanding of the Brahui language and his later work on Shakespeare re-arranged the much disputed argument on the basis of the discovery of a hitherto unexpected rhyme-link or word-link, joining sonnet to sonnet to form an orderly and smoothly flowing whole.

Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare

Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth was sent to the household of Princess Mary at Hunsdon, and it was during that time that the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey would immortalise the ten year-old girl as "The Fair Geraldine" in his sonnet, The Geraldine which he wrote while he was briefly imprisoned for striking a courtier.

Enslavement of Beauty

Lyrics by Ole Alexander Myrholt, except for "Sonnet #CXLIV" by William Shakespeare.

Ewa Sonnet

In September 2007, Sonnet took part in the Polish television show Gwiazdy Tańczą na Lodzie with skating partner Łukasz Jóźwiak.

She embarked on a music career, and on December 11, 2005, Sonnet made her first television appearance on The Kuba Wojewódzki Show on the Polsat channel in Poland to promote her new album Nielegalna ("Illegal").

Holy Sonnets

It is thought that theoretical physicist and Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), regarded as the "father of the Atomic Bomb", named the site of the first nuclear weapon test site "Trinity" after a phrase from Donne's Sonnet XIV.

How Like a Winter

The band's name is taken from the first line of William Shakespeare's sonnet XCVII:- "How like a winter hath my absence been".

Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award was established in 1994 by The Formalist, a poetry magazine founded by William Baer.

Isaac Cardoso

This work, which was celebrated by the rabbi J. Brieli of Mantua in a Hebrew sonnet ("Otzar Nechmad," iii. 167), was sent by Cardoso soon after its appearance, July 23, 1679, to the rabbi Samuel Aboab in Venice, asking for an opinion.

J. H. Haslam

In 2012, New Zealand poet, critic and editor, Mark Pirie wrote on Haslam’s cricket sonnet ‘Ambition’ (which discusses Sir Jack Hobbs) for the Tingling Catch weblog.

Jan Kal

To English-speaking readers who understand a little Dutch, perhaps his most accessible poems are his many sonnet versions of American popular songs, including those of Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan and his favourite, Frank Sinatra.

Matt Goldman

The Love Affair / Sonnet to Sleep South Pawl Records) (P/E/M)

National service in Singapore

This anthology contains seminal works about the dilemma of duty, such as The Fragrance Of Lallang, a sonnet by Koh Buck Song.

O Vrba

The sonnet is dedicated to the Prešeren's home village of Vrba, expressing a sense of general melancholy over the lost idyll of the rural environment.

According to contemporary Slovene literary critics, especially Marija Pirjevec, Boris Paternu and Janko Kos, the meaning of the sonnet is centered on the problem of insecurity and unhappiness of a free subject detached from the theocentric world view.

Pier Michele Giagaraccio

To commemorate him, Gerolamo Araolla wrote the sonnet onor di Sassari e delizia dell'Arno (Honor of Sassari and delight of the Arno).

Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex

George Chapman prefixed to his translation of the Iliad (1598), a sonnet to him, 'with duty always remembered to his honoured countess.'

Somewhere I Have Never Traveled

In almost perfect English, a soliloquy by Ah-hsian of the passionate love sonnet Somewhere I have Never Traveled by E. E. Cummings portends a sad ending.

Sonnet 116

Shakespeare mentions “it” in the second quatrain according to Douglas Trevor, “The constancy of love in sonnet 116, the “it” of line five of the poem, is also – for the poet – the poetry, the object of love itself.

Sonnet 141

In the movie 10 Things I Hate About You , the main character, Kat, is assigned to write her own version of Sonnet 141.

Sonnet 147

Robert Appelbaum is a critic who wrote an article on Sonnet 147 in The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare.

Sonnet 154

As the last in the famed collection of sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare from 1592-1598, Sonnet 154 is most often thought of in a pair with the previous sonnet, number 153.

Sonnet 18

In 2001 Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour recorded Sonnet 18 as a song for his wife, with the music written by him and played on piano by Michael Kamen.

The Message in the Bottle

Percy alludes to a metaphor he had used in "The Delta Factor," that of the literature student who cannot read a Shakespearean sonnet that is easily read by a post apocalyptic survivor in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

His love and admiration for his wife is best expressed in the fine sonnet he wrote as an introduction to her masterpiece The Blazing World.


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