![]() ![]() With wit and in the voice of an angry cat (because the poet slept too late), Jones brings together God and cats in the sonnet form. Donne’s “Holy Sonnets” is one of his most dramatic devotional lyrics. Donne wrote 19 “Holy Sonnets” in direct address to God – and he employed violent and sexual imagery. Poet, Mollycat Jones (Christine Potter), in her title is riffing on metaphysical poet, John Donne’s “Holy Sonnets or Divine Meditations” originally published in the first edition of his Songs and Sonnets (1633). ![]() All Rights Reserved.Amongst contemporary poets, the sonnet is alive and well! Before we get into specifics about the history, traditions and forms of the sonnet, let’s look at a contemporary example & think about the various ways poets continue to work in the form, as well as break with its traditions and “rules.” Here is a link to Mollycat Jones’ “Unholy Sonnet Number One.” Follow this link: “Unholy Sonnet Number One” by Mollycat Jones The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's PatronĪlchemy and Astrology in Shakespeare's Day King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron Dowden calls the sonnet "ill-managed" Wyndham says it has "an unpleasing assonance between the rhyme-sounds of the first quatrain" and Acheson concludes that Shakespeare "certainly did not write, nor did anyone to whom the title of poet might be applied: it is possibly a flight of Southampton's own muse." Read on. In his comprehensive edition of the play, Raymond MacDonald Alden has compiled a selection of criticism from noted scholars. Some believe that Shakespeare is not the true author of this poem because of its anomalous rhythm, and for more serious reasons. Sonnet 145 is unusual in that, unlike any of Shakespeare's other sonnets, it is written in tetrameters. Shakespeare Quotations (by Play and Theme)Īre Shakespeare's Sonnets Autobiographical?Īre all the Sonnets addressed to two Persons? Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. Interpretations in Shakespeare's sonnets. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Since we know next to nothing about Shakespeare's personal life, we have little reason or right not to read the collected sonnets as a work of fiction, just as we would read his plays or long poems. The question remains whether the poet is expressing Shakespeare's personal feelings.
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