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  2. Sonnet 18 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.

  3. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont - Wikipedia

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    Milton’s Sonnet 18 is written in iambic pentameter, with ten syllables per line, and consists of the customary 14 lines. Milton's sonnets do not follow the English (Shakespearean) sonnet form, however, but the original Italian (Petrarchan) form, as did other English poets before him (e.g. Wyatt) and after him (e.g. Elizabeth Browning). This ...

  4. A Map of the World (film) - Wikipedia

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    A Map of the World is a 1999 American drama film, based on the 1994 novel by Jane Hamilton. Directed by Scott Elliott and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, the film stars Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore and David Strathairn. Weaver was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance.

  5. A Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    A Map of the World (1994) is a novel by Jane Hamilton.It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.

  6. English Romantic sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2 ] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...

  7. Sonnet 86 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 86 is one of 154 sonnets first published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in the Quarto of 1609. It is the final poem of the Rival Poet group of the Fair Youth sonnets in which Shakespeare writes about an unnamed young man and a rival poet competing for the youth's favor.

  8. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic - Wikipedia

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    Wordsworth composed the sonnet in August 1802, and it was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). It was included among the "Sonnets dedicated to Liberty"; re-named in 1845, "Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty". [2] Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth

  9. Sonnet Written in the Church Yard at Middleton - Wikipedia

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    The sonnet's rhyme scheme combines the octave and sestet structure of a Petrarchan sonnet with the concluding rhyming couplet of a Shakespearean sonnet.This gives it a first volta after line 8, where the poem's speaker turns from observing the destruction of the waves to the skeletons of the village dead, and a second volta after line 12, when the poem turns "inwards" to the speaker's own ...