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.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
By weaving together songs, sounds, words, and visuals, Psalms gives audiences a real feel for the broader culture.
If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.
Wessels catches gleams to follow not only in magical tales but in twinkling memories, sparkling wordplay, the films of silver-screen star Veronica Lake, and his charm of a daughter, the inspiration of a half-dozen poems that take their titles from spells.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
His poems employ numbers significant to Dine (Navajo) thought and ways of life.
But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees.
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Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection.
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