... and trial by com bat in Shakespeare. 9 For variations on the jo k e p rio r to Much Ado, see Shr. 5.1.32-34, LLL 2.1.202-02,>1.1.63, and 1H4 2.4.402-03. SHAKESPEARE S SONNET 146 Many conjectures have been m ade regarding Shakespeare s original wording of Sonnet 146, line 2. In the first and only reli­ able...

...-39. 8 Holy Bible, Douay Version (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1957). 9 Flannery O Connor, Greenleaf, Everything That Rises Must Converge (New York: Farrar, 1964) 41. 10 Giannone 168. OSCAR WILDE S DORIAN GRAY AND SHAKESPEARE S SONNETS The sources and analogues of Oscar Wilde s novel The Picture...

... directly: The tourists stop to gaze at you in chains And purchase from the souks a souvenir, Thinking your soul breathes in a servile guide. 68 Where McKay’s other African sonnets sketched tensions between specific urban sites and broader geopolitical forces, this poem moves with awkward...

... AND GENRE IN ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! Wilfred Owen, letter to his m other Written in sonnet form, Wilfred Owen s Anthem for Doomed Youth is an elegy...

... the claims o f conflicting modes of love lyric. 6The absurd­ ity of the sonnet the Earl recites in praise of Geraldine in the fig­ ure of Diamante surely suggests a challenge to the lofty idealism typical of Petrarchan verse. The neoplatonic injunction in the sonnet s couplet Into heauens ioyes none can...

..., all of which will be discussed below. Together, these two sonnets compose one am ong several sets dealing with the them e of money or coining falsely, of alchem­ ical chicanery which pretends to make gold. In fact, these two son­ nets are the obverse and reverse of the same coin. Each side informs...

... Looking into C hapm an s H om er has been exhaustively traced. 1All such statem ents invite in­ validation, and in this sonnet there are, in fact, evocations of literary and historical travelling that have gone unnoticed. In particular the climactic, term inal moments of famous journeys resonate...

... of common predilections, includ­ ing reaching back . . . for a far more complex model of tradi­ tion 24 and making connections between . . . personal life and . . . reading in mythology. 25 Richard Sieburth writes that Nerval s sonnets share with Pound s verses a radical compaction, 26 while Roger...

..., written on April 13, 1817, and published in the River Duddon volume in 1820.2 The sonnet is explicit in saying that the sight of springtime glory and blessed­ ness ( the youthful year s prolific art / Of bud, leaf, blade, and flower ) enveloping the earth and the sky threw his keen sense of self...

... 2.1.202-02,>1.1.63, and 1H4 2.4.402-03. SHAKESPEARE S SONNET 146 Many conjectures have been m ade regarding Shakespeare s original wording of Sonnet 146, line 2. In the first and only reli­ able text of the sonnets published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe and printed by George Eld, either the typesetter...

... Georgia P, 1985) 38-39. 8 Holy Bible, Douay Version (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1957). 9 Flannery O Connor, Greenleaf, Everything That Rises Must Converge (New York: Farrar, 1964) 41. 10 Giannone 168. OSCAR WILDE S DORIAN GRAY AND SHAKESPEARE S SONNETS The sources and analogues of Oscar Wilde s...

... as a visual as w ell as narrative structure.The letter poem s, fo r instance, appear in conventional form , w ith dates, and one includes an address and greeting. W hileT rethew ey w orks largely in free verse, the poem s o f section three are d ia ry entries th a t loosely e m p lo y the sonnet form...

... was prominently shaped by the Jewish and Andalusian quarters settled by Iberian migrants, and that developed into creolized enclaves of diasporic cultural memories and practices. In his sonnet “Fez” McKay would enigmatically recall an Arab paramour “of beauty African in shape and form, / With glowing fire...

... to as "the longest sonnet ever w ritte n " extends the line to eight stresses w ith sprung rhythm allow ing for syllabic counts o f 19, 20, even 22 w ithin a single line. And not only are the lines expanded, w ords themselves seem to spread open to allow others to enter. For instance, the obscure "th ro u g h th e r...

...Dennis Sobolev Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001 74 English Language Notes QUIDDITAS: GENERIC IDENTITY IN HOPKINS S POETRY T he first quatrain o f the famous octave o f H opkins s sonnet As kingfishers catch fire sketches o u t a fragm entary picture...

..., both son­ nets in Nipping (Ccc5r, Ccc5v). TH , 1494-1507: Sonnet 1 of Certain Sonnets in Nipping (Ccc5v). TH , 1593-1606: Discovery (Cclr-Cc2v), 365-78. TH , 1609-18: Discovery, 425-38. TH , 1619-34: Discovery, 471-86. TH , 1641-1732: Discovery, 217-311. TH , 1748-52: Discovery, 315-20...

.... There is considerable evidence that A Midsummer Night s Dream was first written for the Carey/Berkeley wedding on 19 February 1595. Originally, however, a dif­ ferent bridegroom had been proposed for Elizabeth Carey: William Herbert, son of Mary Sidney (and, perhaps, the young man of Shakespeare s sonnets). Harold...

... to submit, to read the poem as an incantation that joins malediction and benediction. I also want to add that A délékè A déèkó 18 9 the tw o anim ist form s reconcile the incongruity of the poem's unruly content and its stolid sonnet form. Readers m ight gain a lot by viewing the sonnet as the incantation's...

... Vigili, änd h ër ve,' since this Bóth th ë yéares, änd thë dáyes déep m id n ig h t is. The editors of the two O xford English Texts, Sir H erb ert Grierson (1911 )2and Dame H elen G ardner (Songs and Sonnets, 1965),3 use a semicolon. In this note, we argue that the m ean­ ing of the poem is richer...

... in sonnet form, Wilfred Owen s Anthem for Doomed Youth is an elegy, a lam ent for the hundreds of thousands of young soldiers who died in the trenches of France and Flanders in the first three years of the Great War. Why, then, is it not called Elegy for Doomed Youth ? The clue to answering this question...