What Fool Would Challenge Shakespeare?: Going Toe to Toe with the Champion Sonneteer - Couverture souple

King, T. J.

 
9781490729138: What Fool Would Challenge Shakespeare?: Going Toe to Toe with the Champion Sonneteer
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ISBN 10 : 1490729135 ISBN 13 : 9781490729138
Editeur : Trafford, 2014

Synopsis

Reading this book's title must bring a smile to the reader's face, if not a scowl. Is there an unknown poet actually possessed with the audacity to take on poetry's towering titan of the planet, acknowledged universally to be the greatest? He's got to be kidding! But he isn't. As challenger, it is Shakespeare's collection of 154 sonnets that he draws a ring around. Now pause for reflection. Whether you are yourself a poet or have never set thought to verse in your life, if you were throwing down the gauntlet to the Bard of Avon-with, let's say, your life depending on the outcome-what strategy would have any promise? Ponder the response of the poet here writing, perhaps recalling as you do so the familiar tale of David and Goliath. Think of the fourteen lines of a sonnet, traditionally rhymed in traditional meter, as a slingshot. The strategy of this "David" will be, though all told he will fire ninety-nine times, never to pick up his slingshot until he has found the perfect stone to fire-one that will penetrate the brain.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Reading this book's title must bring a smile to the reader's face, if not a scowl. Is there an unknown poet actually possessed with the audacity to take on poetry's towering titan of the planet, acknowledged universally to be the greatest? He's got to be kidding! But he isn't. As challenger, it is Shakespeare's collection of 154 sonnets that he draws a ring around. Now pause for reflection. Whether you are yourself a poet or have never set thought to verse in your life, if you were throwing down the gauntlet to the Bard of Avon-with, let's say, your life depending on the outcome-what strategy would have any promise? Ponder the response of the poet here writing, perhaps recalling as you do so the familiar tale of David and Goliath. Think of the fourteen lines of a sonnet, traditionally rhymed in traditional meter, as a slingshot. The strategy of this "David" will be, though all told he will fire ninety-nine times, never to pick up his slingshot until he has found the perfect stone to fire-one that will penetrate the brain.

Biographie de l'auteur

T. J. King, PhD, is author of a novel, The Great Matrimonial Debate (Xlibris, 2000), and a memoir, By Blessings Bewildered (America House, 2000). Addicted to writing sonnets in his retirement, he vaguely remembers a previous life in which for thirty years he taught English and literature at American River College, Sacramento. He resides with his wife, Dar, in Carmichael, California.

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Éditeur
Trafford
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1490729135
ISBN 13 
9781490729138
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  1490729143 ISBN 13 :  9781490729145
Editeur : Trafford Publishing, 2014
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