POETRY / Sonnets

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Relevance. The article offers a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the stylistic devices employed in poetic translation, drawing on the sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a prominent representative of Victorian English poetry and the celebrated author of the renowned cycle “Sonnets from the Portuguese”. The relevance of the study is determined by the intrinsic complexity of translating poetic texts, in which…

Reference · Wikidata

form of poetry with fourteen lines and strict rhyming structure

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

A sonnet is a fixed poetic form with a structure traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. The term derives from the Italian word sonetto. Originating in 13th-century Sicily, the sonnet was in time taken up in many European-language areas, mainly to express romantic love at first, although eventually any subject was considered acceptable. Many formal variations were also introduced…

Book · DOAB

How much tradition is there in the avant-garde? Is everything that is claimed to be new really new? Literary Expressionism (the most important avant-garde movement of Classical Modernism), which was and still is generally considered to be the epoch of "broken forms", claimed this for itself: after all, artists had revolutionary experiences (such as the First World War) to deal with and often created something new. B…

Full text · Open Library

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are …