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    Sonnet 118 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the...
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    wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were...
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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets. It was commissioned and premiered by The Acting Company in its 1997-98 season. "Bitter Sauce" by Eric Bogosian, inspired by Sonnet 118 "Hydraulics...
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    Sonnet 23 is one of a sequence of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is a part of the Fair Youth sequence...
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    The New Colossus (category Sonnets)
    "The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal...
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    Petrarch (category Sonneteers)
    as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca. Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and...
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  • a word for this, stemming supposedly from technique specific mostly to sonnets. Volta is not, in fact, a term used by many earlier critics when they address...
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    authentically Shakespearean. These are two sonnets, later to be published in the 1609 collection of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and three poems extracted from the...
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    innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle Delia, the epic poem The Civil Wars Between the Houses of Lancaster...
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  • Pennsylvania Railroad. He wrote "If We Must Die" in response to the events. The sonnet was first published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator. Frank Harris...
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    "Cathedral" in the first part of his drama Faust (1808). Oscar Wilde's "Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Iræ Sung in the Sistine Chapel" (Poems, 1881), contrasts...
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  • doesn't understand what Granny wants and begins to quote Shakespeare's Sonnets. Granny thinks he's courting her. When Jethro and Elly return they all...
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    including a new dedicatory poem to Fulke Greville, replacing the dedicatory sonnet to him in all other editions. Modern editors tend to be critical of these...
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  • label of producer David Foster, a sub-label of Atlantic Records Psalm 143 Sonnet 143 by William Shakespeare Slovenia ranks #143 in world population The 143...
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  • The poem was also adapted in 1803 by the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo as the sonnet "In morte del fratello Giovanni", ("Un dì, s'io non andrò sempre fuggendo/di...
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  • (September 13, 2016) ISBN 978-0-399-17143-7 Robert B. Parker's The Hangman's Sonnet, G.P. Putnam (September 12, 2017) ISBN 978-0-399-17144-4 Robert B. Parker's...
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  • ISBN 0-8032-3084-2. OCLC 9575018. Bermann, Sandra (1988). The Sonnet Over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire. University of...
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  • World Records as the world's most multi-functional penknife with 87 tools. Sonnet 87 by William Shakespeare. Vault 87 is a main location in the game Fallout...
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  • 4: The Bobli Dance) Owen Pallett I am not afraid Björk Unison Emily Hall Sonnet (to words by Toby Litt) Holst Suite No.2 in F (1st mvt: March) John Wilbye...
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  • Mussato's poem dedicated to Henry VII (Poem 33). This poem is written in sonnet-form – a vernacular aesthetic of Northern Italy in the early 14th century...
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  • Goldsher: Washington, George R.R.; Goldsher, Alan (2012). A Game of Groans: A Sonnet of Slush and Soot. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-1-250-01126-8. In 2012...
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  • others ottava rima (ABABABCC) and sonnet (ABBA ABBA CDC DCD or ABBA ABBA CDCD EE). The metre of Mickiewicz's sonnet is the Polish alexandrine (tridecasyllable...
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    giving highest expressions with elasticity of language. The second, the sonnets and poetry, was bound in structure. He imparted economy and intensity to...
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    "Trinity" in mid-1944, saying later that the name came from John Donne's Holy Sonnets; he had been introduced to Donne's work in the 1930s by Jean Tatlock, who...
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    ISBN 978-1-64313-395-9. Edward IV's love for his wife is celebrated in sonnet 75 of Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. (written by 1586, first pub...
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  • Reasoning Jonathan Evans 28 September 2017 psychology 534 Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems Jonathan F. S. Post 28 September 2017 Literature 535 Mammals...
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    Lazarus's vision in her sonnet—she described the statue as "Mother of Exiles"—but her work had become obscure. In 1903, the sonnet was engraved on a plaque...
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  • poet Pietro Aretino advocated anal sex in his Sonetti Lussuriosi ('Lust Sonnets'). During the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher questioned the inclusion of "risky...
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    Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. London: Fourth Estate. pp. 116–118. Turing, Alan (2004). Stuart Shieber (ed.). "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"...
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  • Williams head off to London for Danny to perform at the Palladium. 69 9 "Sonnets from the Lebanese" Sheldon Leonard Mac Benoff November 8, 1955 (1955-11-08)...
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