NEW YORK, July 8 (UPI) -- The art of the sonnet as practiced by British and American poets from William Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac is the subject of an unusual exhibition at the New York Public ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.3.0193 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.3.0193 Copy URL ABSTRACT: The earliest known English poem rhyming ...

was 9 years old in 1955 when 14-year old Emmett Till was lynched outside Money, Miss. The tragedy galvanized support for a fledgling civil rights movement. Nearly 60 years later, Nelson is drawn back ...

Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is usually ...

Recently we challenged listeners to write an American Sonnet: A non-rhyming, free verse, 14 line poem. We got a number of contributions, but it also ignited a debate over whether sonnets without a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The sonnet, in one language or another, has been around for some 800 years and is still in a strange kind of health, as manifest in this ...

This most famous of the one hundred fifty-four sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) evokes, as we all know, both the sweet sadness of the year’s waning and the less-sweet sadness of our own ...

Poetry is likely our oldest linguistic art form, predating even the invention of writing — the first poems were recited and chanted as part of the oral tradition. It has been practiced for millennia ...

Why sonnets now? Conversation about the perennial popularity and adaptability of the sonnet quickly starts to sound circular: the sonnet entices and endures because it entices and endures, includes ...