... not nearly gay or bisexual enough. When read the only way they should be read, in sequence and in totality, the sonnets reveal themselves as a brilliant, complex, sublime narrative of the agonies and ... but one hour mine"). Another point of contention comes at the very end of the sequence. The last two sonnets are generally considered bathetically insipid, a disappointing whimper of an ending ...

... . Case in point: Daniel Bailey’s The Drunk Sonnets, recently out from Magic Helicopter Press, a triumph of postironic ... . On the surface of it, Daniel Bailey’s The Drunk Sonnets (and the multi-author blog on which they were first posted), have a lot in common ... ’s book consists of real live sonnets — most of them are Italian sonnets, with an octave and a sestet and a turn and ...

Are the sonnets the key that Shakespeare used to 'unlock his heart'? Is Venus and Adonis really 'utterly aloof' from his own feelings? Are these works ... us studies that show that insomniacs are generally more tired during the day than those who get a full eight hours sleep. The sonnets are poems of love, we might argue, and Venus and Adonis is a narrative work, – about love, ...

I read through 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor, a recent book which actually contains 81 of his 14-line creations. Did he settle on the title, announce it, and then feel compelled to sneak in 4 more? Not all, in fact, are love poems, but a solid chunk are, with a good dose of eros included. You can read 3 of them over here, along with a nice review. The last of the 3 will give you a feel for ...

... novel After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima. He literally put everything he had into these over the last few days. I challenge you (oh so mighty arbiters of taste and metrical police who hang out on Eratosphere, a poetic pox on you) to read a novel and even do a tenth as well in condensing the essence of it into three linked sonnets and oh yeah, make the language beautiful enough to fall into too.

This episode contains sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, ... with introducing the sonnet to England, while Shakespeare is credited with having perfected it.  The sonnets below appear by the birth order of the authors. Duration: 00:08:37 ( ... 8 minutes) File Size: 8 MB Download: Six Sonnets by Various Authors – MP3 Thomas Wyatt Sir Thomas ...

Inspired by last night's orchestra concert, I immediately pulled out my copy of Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese as soon as I got home. I have a really odd little illustrated hardback copy of this, but it's really lovely. I had not read these through in a long time. Browning's sonnets are just wonderful. They feel so real and so vivid to me.

I like to revisit William Wordsworth on a regular basis for the great sanity of it. THE world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, ...

The stuff of school trips is not often the stuff of romantic weekends too. As part of our Authors on Museums series, Allison Pearson rediscovers the magic of the Musée Rodin ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2009 You never forget your first kiss. Mine happened on a school trip to Paris over 30 years ago and it was either a happy coincidence or a divine joke that, during that ...

The white noise of your breathing falls like snow And swirls up to my smile, drifting and heaping. I feel your heartbeat everywhere I go: It's fierce and peaceful,like a goddess sleeping. Your wind bites like a hundred thousand knives. I meet each slice as if it were a kiss: Promising love in neon-dappled dives, Keeping me distant with your tiger's hiss. You shred me like the legs ...

Shall we try for a list? + Red Room is having a party tonight, co-hosted with our design partners, Boccalatte. If you want to attend you must rsvp to tamryn@redroomcompany.org + Bonny has been in New Zealand writing and traveling and in the meantime we’ve been seeking funding for our 2010 education program. We will get there. + The tiny white rose has opened this morning. A pleasing ...

STARLING SONNET #1 Sitting patiently as Lucifer in a situation Love spread its fractal-loving starlings. Over the winter river, they veered and darted where I met you Where we met again many years later There is the crowd side to matter I have things I should tell you: I trust starlings Or are starlings the things that turn on the bridgework of language which is posing as a spirit That ...

Lucy Farmer: It was in the Musée Rodin that I first realised what Art was capable of. Trailing along behind Monsieur S., our strenuously Francophile teacher in his sadly unironic beret, we had already "done" Notre Dame. Then came a route march through the Louvre. Before its airy makeover with the glass pyramid, the Louvre felt like the worst kind of museum-punishingly vast, the walls ...

Almost forgot . . . Twitter Sonnet #88 Got grocery alien water eggs. The lucky pods hatch only h2o. I knew a spider with eight wooden legs. Aside from Smith, their names I do not know. Fifteen pounds of flax seeds impede progress. Thousands of dollars appear in dream jars. Modest is the world's idea of success. But it's just slightly closer than the stars. Some spinach lasts almost as ...

... series, following up on the introduction and the article on Shakespeare’s sonnets. Today, we’ll talk about “A Lover ... 8221; which was originally published with Shakespeare’s sonnets (do note, however, that “A Lover’s Complaint ... lines each with the rhyme pattern ababbcc). Some of the preceding sonnets — the ones that deal with the affair between the young male ...