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Sonnet 2. Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. Proving his beauty by succession thine! And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold. Sonnet 2 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.
L'infinito. The second hand-written manuscript of L'infinito. "L'infinito" (Italian pronunciation: [liɱfiˈniːto]; English: The Infinite) is a poem written by Giacomo Leopardi probably in the autumn of 1819. The poem is a product of Leopardi's yearning to travel beyond his restrictive home town of Recanati and experience more of the world ...
The essay also surveyed the whole history of the sonnet, including English examples and European examples in translation, in order to contextualise the American achievement. [ 96 ] Recent scholarship has recovered many African American sonnets that were not anthologised in standard American poetry volumes.
Shakespeare's sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. With few exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets observe the ...
Original text. Die Sonette an Orpheus at German Wikisource. The Sonnets to Orpheus (German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) [1] are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian - Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). It was first published the following year. Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense ...
A reading in French of Voyelles. "Voyelles" or "Vowels" is a sonnet in alexandrines by Arthur Rimbaud, [1] written in 1871 but first published in 1883. Its theme is the different characters of the vowels, which it associates with those of colours. It has become one of the most studied poems in the French language, provoking very diverse ...
Petrarchan sonnet. The Petrarchan sonnet, also known as the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet named after the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, [1] although it was not developed by Petrarch himself, but rather by a string of Renaissance poets. [2] Because of the structure of Italian, the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet is more easily fulfilled ...
Frontispiece of the English version (The New Life, D. G. Rossetti, 1899) La Vita Nuova (pronounced [la ˈviːta ˈnwɔːva]; Italian for "The New Life") or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.