60 SONNETS 'ORIGINAL' AND 'STREAMLINED' - Couverture souple

Hamilton, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0595336493 ISBN 13 : 9780595336494

Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

60 Sonnets 'Original' And 'Streamlined' respects poetic traditions. The main feature of the collection, an aggregation of 120 Shakespearean sonnets, may be a recurring movement in favor of rigor that has no punctilious formal traditional.Whatever subject matter might be seen in various examples, many of the sonnets might seem gripping; however, the entire secret of 60 Sonnets 'Original' And 'Streamlined' probably ends up being in the strict form of the Shakespearean sonnet itself as that basic structure repeatedly is 'honored and obeyed' at least in terms of rhyme pattern, meter, and the requisite number of lines.Here are the opening stanzas of "CLXXIX" and "179":Though newer ways to film and televisethe subtle shadings of realitymay long enhance the lives of human eyes,man still will scarcely have the power to see.That film & better television couldbe giving the entire great human racea clearer sense that nature may be goodis no real proof that humans can have grace.The book's main thrust is highly linguistic-highly grammatical-in that the derivative (the 'streamlined') versions may tend to have veneers that seem otherworldly.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Bruce Hamilton, a rather solitary Californian, attended Yale College for two years. He assiduously has devoted most of his literary practicing to such basic pieces as limericks and sonnets. His recent ?literary hero? was and still is Jorge Luis Borges, toward whose pessimisms about language and literature he remains sympathetic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595336493
• ISBN 13: 9780595336494
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 126
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible