English sonnet

Definition of English sonnetnext

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Noun
  • The epitome of that tradition is Choral Evensong, an evening service of hymns, psalms and prayers laid out by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant archbishop of the Church of England, in 1549.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • By simply turning just one strip, the sonnet is altered.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • After all, no poet talks seriously about doing statistical regression on sonnets to find the optimal ones.
    Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.
    Sesshu Foster, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • Her writing is an unabashed celebration of place, a home for motherhood, matrilineal struggle, kink, and the pastoral.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The pastoral was required reading in military academies.
    Gerard F. Powers, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • After deciding to become a priest, Hopkins burned all his poems and vowed to give up writing, but his Jesuit superior, as well as his own study of Welsh language and literature, encouraged him to return to his art.
    René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
  • An epic poem in documentary form—a mirror held to an American nation at war with itself, asking not who is right, but whether the experiment can survive.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Her epic Valentine’s Day rant had tongues wagging for weeks.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2026
  • This all sounds like something out of an ancient Greek epic.
    Big Think, Big Think, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The Spiritual Sound Marc-André Hamelin, Found Objects / Sound Objects The Beths, Straight Line Was a Lie A year like no other, my 2025 in music was filled with joyous arias and madrigals of melancholy.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025
  • This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
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